{"id":322816,"date":"2026-02-08T08:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=322816"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:19:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:19:49","slug":"by-admitting-to-only-70k-dead-and-disappeared-in-gaza-israel-is-haggling-pleading-out-copping-to-a-lesser-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=322816","title":{"rendered":"By Admitting to Only 70K Dead and Disappeared In Gaza; Israel Is Haggling, Pleading Out, Copping to A Lesser Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ilana Mercer \u2013 The Unz Review Feb 6, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Every common criminal and serial offender knows the tactic. Israel is copping a plea. Its pleading to a lesser charge. The \u2018genocidal entity\u2019 knows full well that the number of murdered (and maimed) in Gaza is many, many times higher. So, Israel cops to what is, in reality, the lesser charge.<\/em><\/p>\n

To date, about 12 percent of Gaza\u2019s population has been murdered, disappeared or detained.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the lexicon of crime, what Israel is currently doing is called plea bargaining. Israel is copping to a lesser charge with respect to the number of Palestinians dead and disappeared by its death squads in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Nothing if not cunning, the Israelis know just how reliably compliant the West\u2019s pundits are. At least those who did time in mainstream media<\/a>. As an example take the celebration among some self-styled independent media of the fact that Israel\u2019s military now admits that 70,000 souls were murdered in Gaza.<\/a><\/p>\n

The \u201cgenocidal entity\u201d knows full well that the number of murdered (and maimed) Ghazzawi <\/em>is many times higher. So, Israel cops to what is, in reality, the lesser charge. Every common criminal and serial offender knows the tactic.<\/p>\n

Moron media fail to comprehend that Israeli leadership is copping to a lesser charge with the intent to sustain Israel\u2019s international impunity.<\/p>\n

What the dumb, non-dissident media is doing is being itself. Reflexively, it is offering Israel a plea bargain in advance. \u201cYou can\u2019t fix stupid<\/a>,\u201d said one Texas funny man. \u201cThere is not a pill you can take or a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

On top of that, since Israelis keep killing and destroying as the fancy takes them; the 70,000 plea-bargained figure, readily accepted by the Israeli perpetrators<\/a> who are still on the lam, is no longer valid. Even that erroneous undercount, reported by CNN too<\/a>, is outdated. Late in December of 2025, OCHA had counted<\/a> 70,668; Haaretz 71,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, as far back as June 26, 2025, Nir Hasson, writer for Haaretz, announced that, \u201cYes, in Gaza about 100,000 human beings were <\/a>already<\/em> killed<\/a>.\u201d Later, in the Hebrew edition of July 18, Haaretz featured an op-ed by a \u201cUniversity of London\u201d expert in the assessment of the casualties of \u201cwar\u201d (\u201cgenocide is not war<\/a>\u201d), who admitted that \u201cYes, in Gaza about 100,000 human beings had already<\/em> been killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After that, on November 25, 2025<\/a>, theMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research(MPIDR) proclaimed that \u201cthe current violent death toll\u201d in Gaza likely exceeded 100,000. While their underestimation is already invalid for obvious reasons; at least the \u201cgreat\u201d scientific minds of the Max Planck Institute understand that the situation in Gaza is \u2026 fluid.<\/p>\n

With the pomp of officialdom, the MPIDR and the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) had proffered that the death toll in Gaza, which this lot appears to attribute to the inchoate forces of \u201carmed conflict and political instability,\u201d will keep rising and life expectancy will continue to sharply decline.<\/p>\n

How does one even respond? An inelegant Dah<\/a>? An eye roll? I\u2019ll go one better:<\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t we all settle down and wait for the \u201clegitimate\u201d Piers Moron Media, in their infinite wisdom, to remind us that the \u201cevidence\u201d in Gaza has yet to be carefully bagged and tagged, and that before the serial-killer state can be named and implicated in the homicide of hundreds-of-thousands of Palestinians; fingerprints must be lifted from each and every corpse.<\/p>\n

More seriously, one might inform the misguided simpleton media and the MPIDR that their belated undercounts were preceded by others like them months ago. Nir Hasson aforementioned. And before Haaretz came The Lancet<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ten months into the genocide, in July of 2024, The Lancet,<\/em> an august British medical journal, pegged the direct<\/em> and indirect <\/em>casualties<\/a> of Israel\u2019s industrial-scale mass murder in Gaza at around 186,000, then. Look around you now at Gaza\u2019s landscape and the spectral souls who\u2019re now confined to the western half of the tiny enclave. (The demonic Israel Defense Forces have bisected the Strip<\/a>, occupied the east, and are surreptitiously stealing western Gaza.)<\/p>\n

In 2024, Airwars<\/a> (via \u201cBearing Witness \u2013 Gaza<\/a>,\u201d by Lee Mordechai, historian and Israeli citizen, July 5, 2025), \u201cAn independent non-profit that collects data on violent conflict worldwide,\u201d suggested that \u201cby almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented. \u2026 One expert claimed Israel\u2019s war on Gaza may have been the fastest case of killing 1% of the population in the 21st century, and the death of 2% of the population [at that stage] placed the Gaza conflict among the five most lethal conflicts in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Make that 12 percent.<\/p>\n

The Airwars report hails from 2024. On the ground, always beyond reproach; Euro-Med Monitor\u2019s observers reported, in November of 2025, that 12 percent of Gaza\u2019s Palestinians<\/a> has been murdered, disappeared or detained.<\/p>\n

From the evidence I had collected as early as November of 2023<\/a>\u2014I felt it not imprudent to deduce then that, twelve months on, we\u2019d be speaking of the following distinct possibility: By the time the Israeli serial killers are cajoled into stopping the carnage, there could be at least 250,000, maybe more, direct and indirect Palestinian deaths brought about by Israel.<\/p>\n

Why did I so surmise in November of 2023?<\/a> Well, the thing itself speaks. Res ipsa loquitur. <\/em>And my own simple calculations helped.<\/p>\n

Early in December Of 2023<\/a>, in the face of Israel\u2019s unfathomable ferocity and falseness\u2014killing and lying about everything in sight\u2014I set about to conduct a proportional, if limited, mathematical comparison as to just how vampiric the \u2018vaunted\u2019 Israel Defense Forces are<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Force-fed the fiction of the IDF as the most moral army in the world; I decided to compare like with like, albeit in limited but significant theaters of \u201cwar.\u201d My December 2023 modest inquiry<\/a> endeavored to compare Israel\u2019s offensive in Gaza against \u201cHamas,\u201d late in 2023, to America\u2019s onslaught in Fallujah against the Iraqi resistance, in 2004.<\/p>\n

On the numbers, I had been exceedingly charitable to the Israelis, given that their victims, buried beneath the rubble, were still mostly unaccounted for, and considering that the IDF resumed hostilities against civilians on December 1, after the briefest pause.<\/p>\n

\u201cGaza Vs. Fallujah, Barbaric Blitzkrieg Highlights U.S. Marines Superiority<\/a>,\u201d yielded these results:<\/p>\n

\u201cWere Fallujah as populated as Gaza (2.4 million), the United States Marines would have killed approximately 4,200 Iraqi souls by December 2023. This is a far cry from the Israel Defense Forces\u2019 butcher\u2019s bill of 15,000 civilians (acknowledged) dead in Gaza by 2023\u2019s end\u2014and climbing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Were Gaza as small as Fallujah (400,000); the Israelis, befitting their butcher\u2019s bill until December of 2023, would still have killed at least 2,500 souls to our Marines\u2019 700. Ceteris paribus<\/em>, naturally.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, does the rational mind really need the plonks at Max Planck<\/a> and their Bayesian modeling methodology to tell him or her that which is before our very eyes; to tell us what deductions that cleave to reality have produced over two years?<\/p>\n

Consider the destruction of infrastructure alone (courtesy of the Institute for Palestine Studies<\/a>) and the humanitarian- and service sector martyrs who man it:<\/p>\n