That's like ~40% of the deaths in the current gaza war, except over just 2 days instead of 2 years.
"We killed about 80,000 people by mistake" isn't the exculpation you think it is.
This was the primary method for groups like the Hind Rajab foundation, to locate these war criminals while they were vacationing in other countries to have them arrested on war crime charges.
They didn't need orders, they simply were never told no.