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“At least 81 Palestinians have been killed” in 24 hours in Gaza, the BBC reported on June 28, 2025, citing the “the Hamas-run health ministry”.
There was nothing extraordinary about this at first glance beyond the way that the media had become comfortable building stories around claims from an Islamic terrorist group.
Why 81 dead? Perhaps that seemingly random number is how many people were really killed.
And yet five months earlier, on January 16, 2025, the New York Times reported that, “Gaza’s health ministry said on Thursday morning that at least eight Israeli attacks in the territory had killed 81 people… over the previous 24 hours.”
What were the odds of exactly 81 people being killed in 24 hours on two different dates in Gaza?
Better than you might think.
In 2024, the United Nations passed on the claim by the Hamas “Ministry of Health in Gaza, 81 Palestinians were killed” in 24 hours between February 28 and 29.
A few weeks later, on Mar 18, 2024, the Daily Telegraph reported that the latest Hamas ‘Ministry of Health’ official “toll includes at least 81 deaths in the previous 24 hours.”
No one seemed all that surprised at the Israeli precision that had managed to kill precisely 81 people in 24 hours on 4 different occasions.
And then two months later it happened again.
“81 Palestinians killed in 8 Israeli massacres in Gaza in 24 hours,” the Palestinian Authority’s Wafa reported on May 26, 2024.
The media was claiming that Israel had killed 81 people in February, March and May.
If you think that’s incredible, consider the odds of Israel killing 81 people exactly a year apart.
“Medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 81 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on various parts of Gaza,” the Qatari terrorist news agency claimed on May 26, 2025.
CNN backed up that same number and date contending that a “total of 81 people have been killed… in Gaza in the last 24 hours, the health ministry in Gaza reported.”
Israel had killed 81 people on the same dates in 2024 and 2025. Truly unprecedented.
But Israel kills 81 people fairly often on Al Jazeera, which also reported on July 22, 2024 that, “at least 81 Palestinians killed after Israel launched new military operation in Khan Younis.”
Why does Israel keep killing 81 people in 24 hours specifically? Obviously it’s not.
Forensic accountants (and high school teachers) look for the repetition of certain unlikely numbers as evidence of fraud. People faking their ledgers usually try to avoid round numbers and so they pick an odd number. But they often repeat that same number again and again.
People fall into patterns and having cited “81 people in 24 hours”, Hamas fell into the rut of picking the same number on multiple occasions creating the wildly improbable scenario in which Israeli air strikes kept killing 81 people.
But when people think that they’re being random, they’re actually following patterns. Some people have lucky numbers, a former address, a winning score or a wedding date, that naturally comes to mind whenever they’re asked to pick a random number. That’s something mentalists and magicians know how to exploit. And that may have also been the case with Hamas.
Numerology is a major matter in Islam and ‘81’ is seen as one of Islam’s ‘magical’ numbers. Muslims think of ‘81’ as a special number because they believe that they can see the numbers ‘18’ and ’81’ on their hands written in Arabic and that these numbers together form ‘99’ which is the total of names for their deity ‘Allah’. Thus ‘81’ plays an important role in their prayers.
Hamas may not have intentionally planned to cite ‘81’ repeatedly, but as devout Muslims, the number was already on their minds and when picking a figure out of thin air, they chose 81.
They may have been at it longer than anyone realizes because the earliest media mention of 81 in Gaza dates back to July 2014 when a CNN report claimed that, “At least 81 killed in Gaza.”
It’s possible that after this article comes out, they will stop, but also equally possible that they will keep it up because no one in the media had noticed it and no one will comment on it now.
CNN passed on Hamas claims that 81 people had been killed in Gaza beginning in 2014 and, since Oct 7, on Oct 20, 2023, May 26, 2024 and Jan 16, 2025 without doing a double take.
And the rest of the media is no better.
What’s at stake here is more than ‘81’, it’s the entire war propaganda narrative of tens of thousands of dead women and children delivered to the media by Hamas. If that narrative collapses, the push for a ‘ceasefire’ that leaves the terrorists in power, a mission that has become the core political activity of both Islamists and the far left, will also fall apart.
The media can’t allow itself to spot even the more obvious ‘tells’ of fraud. Including Israel somehow repeatedly killing precisely 81 people on different dates and operations.
To Muslims, 81 is sacred, but to everyone else it ought to be a measure of the Big Lie.
After Oct 7, Hamas took its hostages, retreated to its tunnels and counted on its Muslim Brotherhood parent group and the MB’s network of allies to launch a propaganda campaign based on fake atrocities and an equally fake civilian death toll. The media continues printing every lie sent by Hamas, sometimes at least citing the ‘Gaza Ministry of Health’ as “Hamas-run” and other times misleadingly calling the genocidal Islamic terrorists “Gaza health officials”.
81 is also the degree to which the media chose not to examine the numbers it was getting from Hamas. Why? Because the media wants the terrorists to win and it wants America, Israel and the rest of the civilized world to lose.
The next time you hear another nonsensical death toll out of Gaza, just reply with ‘81’.
Excellent work. That’s a classic mathematical tell.
After all that’s said & done I believe I’ll put this in file 13, which, according to my boss is known as the trash bin.
“81.” That’s probably the amount of lice the average Paleosimians have on their heads and crabs on their genitals.
And since when were islamopithecines able to do math? 81 + 18 = 99? That’s probably rote memory, like quoting the unholy koran. They learned that simple formula from some of the conquered people, probably Indians.
Excellent point. Leftists give Islam credit for inventing zero, but zero was invented by Indian mathematicians, and Muslims just co-opted it.
They’ve been called “Arabic numerals” for centuries, because you’re right – the Arabs didn’t invent the numeric system we use now; they just took credit for it.
B. Hussein decided to credit the muslim world for a number of other things they also didn’t invent during his bullshit “America Apology Tour” during his 1st term.
The numeric system is now called “Hindustani-Arabic” numerals. They should drop the “arabic” part, but leftist pricks are only interested in deleting our history.
Yes, definitely drop the “Arabic” part. The only thing those Wogs contributed was camel shit.
The left-wing kiss asses give the islamopithecines credit for inventing algebra, too. Last time I checked, that was invented by a Persian guy named Al-Khwarizmi, who studied Indian mathematics. Thanks for that, Al.
You would know, being the mathematician and all.
I admit I had to look up his name because I have trouble remembering foreign names. Like these Polack TV series’ I I’ve been watching on Netflix lately. They’re good but remembering the character’s names is impossible.
The islamopithecines try to claim credit for everything imaginable. They’re like monkeys stealing mangos.
I read a whole book on Indian mathematics that I found in the UC Berkeley math library, back in the 1970s or so. I remember that Indian mathematics had reached a very high point in the 600s, right before the Islamic invasions started.
Naturally. The Islamic invasions always produce mass ignorance and low living standards. Islamopithecines destroy civilization wherever they go.
Those Indians were very good at math when they weren’t bowing to Brahma, Shiva, Kali and all those other comic book characters.
India has a very odd history. It was quite isolated from the rest of the world but accomplished a great deal. It also had staggering poverty and disparity of wealth but then, so did Medieval Europe. Europe really went to shit after the Western Roman Empire fell, eh? The whole “Pond” was protected and prosperous up until then.
It makes me wonder what will happen when America falls…….and we will.
We can’t believe anything that comes out of the mouth of academics these days, prior to lockdowns they could never find anything that the islamic world did other than terror, now they magically find that islamic people discovered everything.
Well according to Muslims they invented everything.
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets.
Wow, what a load of shit. I didn’t even get through half of it. When the Ben Kingsley character said moslem “culture” stretched fro Spain to China and was responsible of myriad accomplishments in civilization I had to stop watching. I don’t even want to know what movie that is.
Thanks for displaying what shitbags leftiy islamophiles are.
Not only that, but the descendants of the Muslim invaders of Egypt are now trying to claim descent from the original pyramid-building Egyptians and have nearly succeeded in erasing the indigenous Copts from history and from Egypt itself. Exclusive access to the international library at Alexandria turned the Arab tent-dwellers into architects.
More like a minimum number
So, the “81” were “deep-sixed”?
It’s not just artificially manufactured numbers of casualties; it’s also the nauseating lies repeated by the mainstream media of Hamas’ number of dead women and children. There’s hardily a mention of any men and especially NEVER any mention of the number of Hamas members dead. Oh and let’s not forget about the blood libel of a genocide happening in the Gaza Strip!
Somehow and for some unknown reason, the IDF are just targeting women and children. For the mainstream media to even dare repeat these lies amounts to journalistic malpractice. For any journalist worth his / her salt, he / she would know the IDF goes out of its way to warn civilians ahead of any intensive military engagement that will be taking place. So in order to repeat Muslim propaganda, a journalist would have to totally negate the IDF’s efforts to warn civilians to leave an area prior to their military actions. Furthermore, such a journalist would have to suspend his / her beliefs that the IDF aren’t targeting Hamas but instead have decided to just willy-nilly direct fire at civilians.
A real journalist wouldn’t be reporting casualty numbers and then frame his / her report by stating that these figures come from Hamas’ Health Ministry. A real journalist would know that Hamas spews propaganda and thus, wouldn’t partake in reporting these casualty numbers, knowing legally they’re actively promulgating lies. How can a real journalist actually believe time and time again that the IDF haven’t killed even one Hamas member? How can a real journalist live with himself or herself knowing it’s illogical that the IDF according to Hamas’ Health Ministry only ends up killing women and children?
Unfortunately, the Western media is chock-full of unethical journalists that engage in yellow journalism because of one reason and one reason only – they hate Jews!
I recall that during the Gulf war, virtually every American missile missed its military target and instead hit nothing but “schools and hospitals”.
Muslims who believe that crap have no place in the civilized world! Europe is well on its way to either full submission or a massive revolution to remove them from their Nations. We should not rescue them a THIRD TIME!1
Whereas we could early help save them from external state actors, we can’t help them against an enemy they’ve welcomed into their midst by the millions.
While I agree the media and the Left want America to lose to say the Gaza casualties are fake is quite a stretch.
The knuckle draggers are getting what they deserve – karma – go cry in your koran
Quite a stretch – wow, you are being poetic today – no, I meant pathetic.
There have been several studies by statisticians that have concluded that there are problems with Hamas’ figures. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-hamas-manipulates-gaza-fatality-numbers-examining-male-undercount-and-other
And for a bit of light relief
Excellent point. They are probably too mathematically clueless to realize they are giving the game away with their phony numbers.
That IS funny. Every lefty in America should be forced to watch it with their eyes pinned opened.
Damn, Sebastard, you’re so stupid a cockroach could out think you. Roaches probably have better hygiene, too.
You probably noticed his method also.
Always accuse your opponents of what you are doing.
Saul Alinsky
And I’ll bet all of the 81 casualties every time are virgins! What are the odds!
satanic media lies for the satanic enemy – 8×10 glossies reading a teleprompter – there is no journalistic integrity
And here they come again, another 81 Gazans to be killed by Israelis. It’s almost as if they are running around the block to line up and be killed all over again for the benefit of the media.
Great investigative journalism, Daniel! Thank you!
only 81 !? on different occasions ! its nowhere near enough deaths . considering there is supposed to be a genocide . from the people who say they love death more than jews love life . if they are getting what they love why are they complaining ? i would assume they would be happy about the death rate because that is what they prefer , all they need to state is that they died performing jihad and they go straight to paradise . thats a euphemism for hell just in case no one recognises the sleigh of hand they pull . plus there is pay for slay , their family members are financially better off if they are killed . its a win win for camel lovers , cant see the problem .
I recall that a few years ago much was being made about the fake videos which were being staged by the palestinians. It became known as Pallywood. Is Pallywood still functioning in the Middle East?
I call them, ” The masters of the black arts” Do not believe a word the say.
They practice the art of lying.
Taqiyya – Saying something that isn’t true as it relates to Muslim identity (i.e whether one is a Muslim or what that means). This is a Shiite term: the Sunni counterpart is Muda’rat.
Kitman – Lying by omission. An example would be when Muslim apologists quote only a fragment of verse 5:32 (that if anyone kills “it shall be as if he had killed all mankind”) while neglecting to mention that the rest of the verse (and the next) mandate murder in undefined cases of “corruption” and “mischief.”
Tawriya – Intentionally creating a false impression by saying something that is technically true, when knowing that the listener will interpret it in a different way. This practice has a broader application than taqiyya.
Muruna – ‘Blending in’ by setting aside some practices of Islam or Sharia in order to advance others.
Classic PallyWeid. It all goes back to Gaza death ministry (GhM) and its mouthpiece Al shitzeera.