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'Palm strike' is a misnomer, it's just that the palm is pulled back but the contact striking area is the intersection of the upper wrist bone and the heel of the hand which is not that much and is fairly hard but with slightly more 'padding' than a knuckle.
The reason why a punch would hurt and do more damage is because all that force is being directed into essentially a small point at the end of your two knuckles you should be landing with when you punch. It's like a bullet or a hammer, when you were to hit someone with the palm it spreads the force across more area.
Its very easy to drop someone with a punch to the liver, I'm not sure how easy it would be to drop someone with a palm to the liver. But I've also never been palmed by anyone.
If you throw a hook to the body like this hard it will drop someone.