the lydda death march the death toll was around of and kilometres people died of dehydration thirst hunger and even disease according to morris not to make light of it i have hiked 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 kilometres the death toll was between and and included cutting the throats of stragglers there is about one presumably reputable historian the oxford companion reference who refers to it that way