After over two years of aggressive denial, the Israeli army has finally accepted Gaza’s official death toll.
That figure currently stands at around 71,000 Palestinians. Strikingly, the IDF have even accepted that it is an underestimate. According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, they have noted “that the number does not include missing residents who are potentially buried under rubble.”
Before I go through why the official statistics are almost certainly drastically lower than the real death toll, it is worth remembering how much effort the Israeli state and its propagandists put into discrediting these figures. …..more
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