Morning Note

Israel's defenders have spent years insisting the Gaza Health Ministry’s “Hamas War” death counts are terrorist propaganda. But they aren’t. The Israeli government admitted it on Thursday.

The IDF has finally fessed up to killing a minimum of 71,667 Palestinians since beginning its operations “against Hamas,” acknowledging that the Health Ministry’s casualty estimates are actually lower than the correct count. Israel has wounded at least an additional 171,343 people since its conflict began, and some assessments say the total number eclipses 500,000. 

Will the liars who dismissed the Gaza Health Ministry’s data as antisemitic apologize? We’d be shocked. They defend Israel no matter what. The truth is of distant secondary importance. 

The IDF’s own data show that 83% of those killed in Gaza were civilians. That means Israel now admits it has slaughtered nearly 60,000 innocents in response to October 7th, when Hamas killed under 825 noncombatants. American tax dollars funded the Netanyahu government’s atrocities every step of the way. What a humiliating stain on our nation’s history. 

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