Casualties suffered by Palestinians in war:
Note: Article is not comprehensive. Some records of Palestinian casualties are under dispute. The criteria used for this article: Casualties inflicted by war or combat. Casualties considered to be "unnecessary deaths" not included. Graph only includes casualties of Palestinian Arabs and not other actors. Bold indicates major actors.
1920–1948[]
Conflicts prior to Israel's independence | Actors involved | Combatant deaths | Civilian deaths | Total deaths | Combatant and/or Civilian wounded | Total casualties |
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1920 Palestine riots | British Empire, Arab rioters. | Not applicable | 4 | 4 | 23 | 31 |
Jaffa riots | British Army, Arab rioters. | unknown | unknown | 48 | 73 | 121 |
1929 Palestine riots | , British Army
Palestine Police Force, Betar. Arab rioters. |
116 rioters[1][2] | unknown | 116 Arabs 133 Jews |
232 Arabs 198 Jews |
679 |
1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine | British Army, Haganah, Arab High Command.[3] | British and Jewish forces 562; Palestinian Arabs ca.5,000 | 5,000 | 15,550 of which,15,000 Arab Palestinians. | 18,000–24,000+ | |
Palestine Civil War | British Army, Army of the Holy War, Arab Liberation Army, Irgun, Haganah, Palmach. | 400–600[4] | 200–300[5] | At least 720[4] | 1,171 | 1,800 |
1948–2014[]
Conflicts | Actors involved | Combatant deaths | Civilian deaths | Total deaths | Combatant and/or Civilian wounded | Total casualties |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1948 Arab-Israeli War, also referred to as the Catastrophe and the War of Independence or War of Liberation.[6][7] | Israel Defense Forces
Kingdom of Egypt Kingdom of Iraq, Army of the Holy War, Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, Arab Liberation Army, Muslim Brotherhood, John Bagot Glubb |
3,700 foreign Arab troops;1,953 Palestinians died during battles. | 11,047 Palestinians missing presumed dead though not known to have died in combat situations[8] | 3,000-13 000 (The higher figure indicate missing and presumed death, though not known to have died in combat situation) [9][10] | ca.3,000?[11] | |
1949–1967 fedayeen war[12][13][14][15] | Egyptian Armed Forces | 2,700–5,000 | unknown | 2,800–5,000+ | considered heavy, at least 500 | 3,200–5,000 |
Qibya massacre[16] | Israel Defense Forces | unknown | 42 | 42 | unknown | 42 |
Battle of Karameh[17] | Israel Defense Forces, | 156 | 0 | 156 | 100 | 256 |
War of Attrition[18][19] | IDF special forces, Palestinian Baathist | At least 100 | unknown | 100 | unknown | 100+ |
Black September in Jordan 1970–1971[20][21] | Jordan | 3,400 | unknown | 3,400 | unknown | 3,400 |
1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon | Israel Defense Forces | 100+ | 0 | 100+ | unknown | 100+ |
Lebanese Civil War (1975–1977)[22][23] | Lebanon
Rejectionist Front Lebanese Front |
unknown, thousands | 5,000+ | unknown, At least 5,000 | unknown, At least 4,000 | 5,000–10,000+ |
1978 South Lebanon conflict | Lebanon | 1,000–2,000 | 0 | 1,000–2,000 | unknown, heavy | 2,000+ |
1982 Lebanon War[24] | Lebanon | unknown | unknown | 5,000-8,000[25] 15,000-20,000[26][27] |
30,000[26][27] | 15,000-20,000[26][27] |
War of the Camps[28][29] | Lebanon | 2,000 killed by Amal, 3,000+ killed by other Palestinians | unknown, heavy | 5,000+ | unknown, heavy | 8,000+ |
First Intifada[30][31] | Israel Defense Forces | 1,000 killed by Israel security forces, 1,000 killed by other Palestinians | unknown | At least 2,000 | unknown, heavy | 2,000+ |
Second Intifada[32][32][33][34] | Israel Defense Forces
Fatah |
2,000–3,500+, disputed | 1,099–2,800 | 4,791 killed by Israeli security forces, 714 killed by other Palestinians | 8,611 {unverified-Palestinian claims} | 13,400+ |
Fatah-Hamas conflict[35] | Fatah |
248 | at least 98 | 600 | 1,000 wounded | 1,600 |
2008–9 Gaza War[36] | Israel Defense Forces | 491–709, disputed | 295–962 | 1,166–1,417 | 5,303 | 6,400–6,700 |
March 2012 Gaza-Israel clashes[37] | Israel Defense Forces | 18 | 3 | 21 | 24 | 45 |
November 2012 Israeli "Operation Pillar of Defense"-Gaza[38][39] | Israel Defense Forces | 67–120 | 109 | 174–177 | unknown | |
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict | Israel Defense Forces | 693 | 1617 | 2310 | unknown |
Gallery[]
See also[]
- Zionist political violence
- Timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2002
- Violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2003
- Violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2004
- Violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2005
- Violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2006
- Violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2007
- Violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2008
- List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2011
- Israeli casualties of war
References[]
- ↑ http://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk/marketing/index.jsp Archived 12 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Great Britain, 1930: Report of the Commission on the disturbances of August 1929, Command paper 3530 (Shaw Commission report), p. 65.
- ↑ The 1936 Riots. Jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 British Rule in Palestine, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/brits.htm
- ↑ Gilbert, Martin (2005). Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
- ↑ Morris 2008, pp. 404–406.
- ↑ Arab Israel War 1948–1949. Onwar.com.
- ↑ Henry Laurens, La Question de Palestine, Fayard, Paris 2007 vol.3 p.194.The total figure of those missing who are not known to have died in battle is given by 'Arif al-'Arif as 11,047, composed of 4,004 people whose names are unknown, but the place and dates of the circumstances are known:7,043 dead whose names are unknown, nor dates of death, but of whom the villages where they dwelt at the time are known.
- ↑ http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/ink/israel/fisrael1948.htm
- ↑ Laurens 2007 p.194
- ↑ Morris 2008, pp. 404–406.
- ↑ Orna Almog (2003). Britain, Israel, and the United States, 1955–1958: Beyond Suez. Routledge. p. 20. ISBN 0-7146-5246-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=vYmBoP09_kkC&pg=PA20&dq=infiltrations+palestinian+economic+fedayeen.
- ↑ Benny Morris (1993). Border Wars, 1949–1956: The Sinai-Suez Wars and the end of the Fedayeen. Oxford University Press. pp. 419–425. ISBN 0-19-829262-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=YUthqHRF-m8C&pg=PA419&dq=fedayeen+suez+war+morris.
- ↑ Thomas G. Mitchell (2000). Native Vs. Settler: Ethnic Conflict in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, and South Africa. p. 133. ISBN 0-313-31357-1.
- ↑ Benny Morris (1993) Israel's Border Wars, 1949–1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-829262-7 P 67
- ↑ Benny Morris, Israel's Border Wars, 1949–1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation and the Countdown to the Suez War, Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 258–9.
- ↑ Pollack (2002), pp. 331–332
- ↑ The Israeli Commando Assault on Green Island. Jewishvirtuallibrary.org (10 July 1969).
- ↑ Israeli Elite Units since 1948, Sam Katz, Osprey Publishing 1988, p.31-32
- ↑ Bailey, p.59, The Making of a War, John Bulloch, p.67
- ↑ Massad, Joseph Andoni. Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan. Page 342.
- ↑ Tel El Zaatar 1976 'Tal el zaatar' ' Tel al zaatar '. Liberty05.com.
- ↑ Lebanon (Civil War 1975–1991). Globalsecurity.org.
- ↑ Osprey Men-At-Arms series, 1985
- ↑ Gabriel, Richard , A, Operation Peace for Galilee, The Israeli-PLO War in Lebanon, New York: Hill & Wang. 1984, p. 164, 165, ISBN 0-8090-7454-0
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 Fisk, Robert (2001). Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280130-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=8a9jjx_JO60C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA255#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 "The 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon: the casualties". 1983. pp. 340–3. Digital object identifier:10.1177/030639688302400404. http://rac.sagepub.com/content/24/4/340.refs.
- ↑ http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat3.htm#Lebanon
- ↑ Lebanese Civil War 1985 – 1987. Liberty05.com.
- ↑ Collaborators , One Year Al-Aqsa Intifada , Fact Sheets And Figures Archived 6 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine.. Phrmg.org.
- ↑ Fatalities in the first Intifada | B'Tselem. Btselem.org.
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 ICT Middleastern Conflict Statistics Project Archived 3 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine.. 212.150.54.123 (1 January 2005).
- ↑ Fatalities | B'Tselem Archived 5 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine.. Btselem.org.
- ↑ The Intrafada: Palestinians Killed by Palestinians. Jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
- ↑ [1] "Over 600 Palestinians killed in internal clashes since 2006"
- ↑ [2] Archived 1 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "New Israeli Airstrikes Kill 3 in Gaza". 12 March 2012. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/gazans-militants-killed-israeli-airstrikes-15900383#.T13gAzES2Ag.
- ↑ Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of Human Rights Council resolutions S-9/1 and S-12/1, Addendum, 6 March 2013.
- ↑ After eight days of fighting, ceasefire is put to the test
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