The Lydda Death March the death toll was around 1 2 of 1 and 17 kilometres People died of dehydration thirst hunger and even disease according to Morris Not to make light of it I have hiked 10 miles in the desert in the heat without sufficient water and no food and while no picnic it was hardly a death march The Bataan Death March for example was 90 kilometres the death toll was between 25 and 28 and included cutting the throats of stragglers There is about one presumably reputable historian the Oxford Companion reference who refers to it that way