In numbers: Israel’s losses and damages since the beginning of the war on Gaza

by times news cr

2024-04-25 09:12:55

The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, since October 7, has caused losses and damage to Israel at all military, logistical and economic levels.

According to official data from the Israeli army, the announced death toll of Israeli soldiers and civilians whose names were allowed to be published reached 1,493, including 605 soldiers and officers, 260 of whom were killed during the battles and ground incursion into Gaza, 814 civilians, and 74 from the intelligence, police, firefighting and ambulance services, in addition to 69. Foreigner killed.

According to the latest data from the Israeli Ministry of Security, the Rehabilitation Division of the Israeli Ministry of Security received 7,209 wounded soldiers, 95% of whom were reserve soldiers up to the age of 30, while the number of Israelis detained by the Palestinian resistance reached 257, of whom 124 were returned according to the exchange deal, while 133 Israelis remain in Gaza, 36 of whom are estimated to have been killed due to bombing and raids.

According to monitoring by the Israeli Democracy Institute, about 330,000 Israelis were evacuated from their homes in the south, the “Gaza envelope” settlements, and the Israeli border towns with Lebanon, and 135,000 of them have not returned yet, costing the government treasury 700 million shekels per month ($189 million).

According to the data, 498,000 complaints demanding compensation for property damage were submitted to the Israeli Tax Authority Fund, where compensation amounting to 11.8 billion shekels ($3.2 billion) was paid, according to Al Jazeera.

According to data from the National Insurance Institute, 70,000 Israelis were classified as injured as a result of so-called “hostile actions,” including 11,000 who were admitted to hospitals, and initial allocations worth one billion shekels ($270 million) were transferred to them.

As for the losses and damages incurred by the “Gaza envelope” settlements at the level of homes, infrastructure, public centers and institutions, they are estimated at approximately 19 billion shekels ($5.2 billion), according to the government plan to rehabilitate and restore the envelope settlements.

Regarding the losses and damages incurred by the Israeli border towns with Lebanon, it is estimated that the size of the initial losses in homes and infrastructure, according to estimates by the Israeli Tax Authority, is about 5 billion shekels ($1.35 billion).

In the same context, the Israeli army summoned more than 300,000 Israelis to serve in the reserve forces, costing the Israeli economy monthly losses worth 5 billion shekels ($1.35 billion) as a result of the loss of manpower, and the value of direct damage to commercial interests amounted to 6 billion shekels ($1.62 billion). ) per month, and the construction branch suffers from almost complete paralysis, as its losses per day are estimated at 150 million shekels ($40.5 million).

According to the data, the losses of the agricultural sector amounted to about two billion shekels ($540 million) per month, and the losses of the tourism sector amounted to approximately 4 billion shekels ($1.1 billion), and the advanced technology sector in Israel recorded a decline in the volume of investments by 60%.


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