Yes, this is also what I've been arguing here for months.They are talking about indirect casualties in the letter, not battlefield casualties.
It is specifically not about battlefield casualties.
To quote the letter itself...
They are talking about the eventual final death numbers after months and years once the shooting stops.
Aside from the dead counted at the few remaining hospitals there are thousands buried in rubble, and so many more thousands close to death from injury, starvation and disease.
The likely total killed by Israel is likely at least 186,000 according to the letter published by the Lancet.
You're not trying to argue that those who die from injury, are buried in rubble or dying from starvation, water deprivation or disease are not dying because of Israeli action, are you?
Even noting that this includes Palestinians who are dying and will die as a result of Israeli genocidal actions in the future isn't important. Israel genocide up to this point will likely lead to 186,000 total dead. Continuing the genocide will continue to increase these numbers, with as the letter notes, conservatively 4x the number directly killed. Every day that this genocide continues those numbers will increase.
The question is whether you still think its pragmatic to continue to support this genocide, which you have admitted is a genocide, with these numbers.
Is there a limit to how much genocide its pragmatic to support? Or once you're in with genocide do you back it regardless of how far it goes?