The 30,000 number comes from the Ministry of Health. It seems the UN number also aligns with the new 30,000 number. This is much worse than the 3,000 that was reported earlier. But it also seems like the crackdown is over now, and we're still just counting deaths from Jan 8 and 9.
I compare this to the recent protests in Bangladesh, where Sheikh Hasina ordered the military to shoot the protesters and the military refused. The difference between these two countries is proof that people do have the ability to disobey orders from authoritarian leaders, and that decision can have a huge impact.
They're trying into install a literal monarchy on behalf of a regime which is guilty of committing a Nazi style genocide.
Probably a little skepticism is warranted on their casualty figures.
It's more ethnic cleansing via conflict than it is industrial racially targetted murder.
Remember Israel has millions of "Arab Israelis"/Palestinians living in Israel proper.
The salient features are mass slaughter and land grabs motivated by a racial supremacy based ideology. In these respects they are identical.
Those Arabs dont feel entirely safe living as second class citizens in a society where UN recognized genocide of their brothers and sisters goes unpunished and chants of "death to arabs" have become louder every day.