Casualties of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict

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There have been many casualties in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. The vast majority of deaths have been civilians, mostly Lebanese. This has led to condemnation of both sides. Note that sources can be conflicting.

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[edit] Overall

[edit] Casualties of involved parties

Entity Civilian Military
Amal Movement 17 dead[1]
Hezbollah 74 reported by Hezbollah, 500+ reported by IDF[2], 500 estimated by UN official[3], 440 identified by Israel and up to 700 estimated by Amidror[4]More than 700 claimed by Lebanese sources [5]
Flag of Israel Israel 44 dead [6][7]
1,489 wounded [8]
119 dead [6][7] including at least one US citizen[9]
~400 wounded[10][11]
Flag of Lebanon Lebanon 1,187 dead
3,600 wounded[12][13][14][15][16][17]
46 dead
~100 wounded
PFLP-GC 2 dead [18]
Flag of United Nations UN 2 dead 4 dead
12 wounded. See main article
Total 1,233+ dead
5,089+ wounded
262-888+ dead
512+ wounded

[edit] Foreign civilian casualties

[edit] Lebanese

  • According to various media, between 1,000 and 1,200 people are reported dead. Additionally, there have been between 480 and 1100 people wounded, and over 1,000,000 have been temporarily made refugees, with an unknown number of missing civilians in the south. [36][37][38][39][40]
  • On 28 July Lebanese Health Minister Mohammad Khalifeh announced that hospitals in Lebanon had received 401 dead Lebanese people since 12 July. He also reportedly said: "On top of those victims, there are 150 to 200 bodies still under the rubble. We have not been able to pull them out because the areas they died in are still under fire".[41]
  • Hezbollah acknowledges 49 killed. [42][43] IDF Chief of Staff Lt. General Dan Halutz has claimed that close to 100 Hezbollah fighters have been killed at 22 July, in land fighting in South Lebanon.[44] IDF claimed the killing of more than 300 Hezbollah fighters as of August 1. [45]
  • The Kuwait Times reported that Hezbollah has buried over 700 fighters with more to follow, August 30.[46]
  • The Australian reports that Israel has the names of over 430 Hezbollah fighters it killed and estimates total Hezbollah dead at over 800, August 29.(Abraham Rabinovich recently reported in the Washington Times on Sept. 27 that Israel now had 532 names.) [47]


A report[48] on August 4th, documenting Iran's financial help to the families of Hezbollah fighters, claimed Hezbollah has already lost 500 men, plus 1500 wounded. The report said, that the wounded are being treated in Syria to make the wounded harder to count.

  • As of 8/5, The American University of Beirut Medical Center, the largest and most important hospital in Lebanon, has only enough power to continue operations for a week. A shipment of fuel from the oil tanker Aphrodite is awaiting in the Mediterranean but does not have written assurance of safe passage.[4]
  • According to the Lebanese government's "Council for Development and Reconstruction" the Lebanese damage incurred amounted to US $3.5 billion: US $2 billion for buildings and US $1.5 billion for infrastructure. [49]

[edit] Israeli

  • According to Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 119 [6][7] Israeli soldiers have been killed (including one pilot, killed in a collision between two helicopters, and two in another helicopter crash, also four servicemen were killed after INS Hanit was hit), nine more wounded.
  • According to Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 44 [6][7] civilians have been killed, out of which 18 were Israeli Arabs[50][51], while another 418 civilians were treated in hospitals, 19 of whom were seriously injured, and another 875 treated for shock.[52] Many civilians have left their homes in northern Israel and went south. [citation needed]
  • According to Israeli government Israeli damage is 1.1bn US dollar.
  • Of the 44 Israeli civilians killed, 19 were Arabs.

[edit] Foreign nationals

  • An Indonesian migrant worker in Lebanon was killed on 11 July due to Israel missile attack.[53]
  • Seven Canadian members of a Lebanese family from Montreal, including four children, were killed and six severely injured by an Israeli attack on Aitaroun in South Lebanon on 16 July. An eighth member of the family died later from injuries sustained in the blast.[54]
  • A family of four Brazilians, including two children, was killed in the Israeli bombings in Srifa,[55] drawing condemnation from foreign relations minister Celso Amorim.[56] Another Brazilian child was killed in an Israeli strike in Tallousa.[57]
  • Four members of a German-Lebanese family, including two minors, from Mönchengladbach, Germany were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Chehour in southern Lebanon while on vacation.[58][59]
  • The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry has reported that two Kuwaiti nationals have been killed by Israeli bombing.[60]
  • One Sri Lankan the source indicates they are UNIFIL civilian staff, and there is no evidence that a second Nigerian couple was killed in an Israeli bombing.[10]
  • One Iraqi was killed by Israeli bombing.[10]
  • One Jordanian was killed when Israeli missiles hit trucks near Zahleh in the mountains above the eastern Bekaa Valley.[10]
  • A Brazilian businessman was killed in an IAF missile attack on a factory he owned in Lebanon.[61]
  • A Palestinian was killed in an Israeli bombing that hit a Palestinian refugee camp at Rashidiyeh. [62]
  • An Argentine woman who recently immigrated to Israel died 13 July in a Hezbollah rocket attack on Nahariya, Israel.[63]
  • A Nigerian domestic worker was killed during an airstrike as he rode his motorbike south of Tyre on 27 July in an Israeli air raid.[64]
  • An Indian glass factory worker in Lebanon, Devendra Kumar Swain was killed on 21 July by an Israeli bombing.[65]

[edit] United Nations

UN personnel were subjected to dozens of attacks and near misses from both sides during the present conflict, most prominently the 25 July Israeli bombing of a UNTSO position,[66] which killed four UNTSO unarmed observers (Austrian, Canadian, Chinese and Finnish).[67] Diplomats familiar with the probe say that the strike was carried out with a precision-guided missile.[66]

Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a statement from Rome that he was " ... shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defence Forces."[68] On 26 July 2006, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert phoned Kofi Annan and expressed his deep regret over the death of the four UN observers. He promised that Israel would thoroughly investigate the incident and would share the findings with Annan, but says he was taken aback by secretary general’s statement saying that the Israeli attack on the UN post was "apparently deliberate".[69]

After the attack, Dan Gillerman, Israel's UN representative, said Israel would not allow the UN itself to participate in an investigation of the airstrike that killed the four UN observers.[70]

On 14 August, the IDF targeted what it said was a Palestinian faction in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in Saida. Two missiles were fired into a civilian residential area and killed UNRWA staff member Abdel Saghir. Few days before two civilians were killed.

[edit] See also

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International reactions Operation Grapes of Wrath
Ceasefire attempts 1996 shelling of Qana
The Siniora Plan
Military and economic aid
Attacks on UN personnel
2006 Qana airstrike and reactions
UN Security Council Resolution 1701
Photograph controversies

[edit] References

  1. ^ July War 2006 Timeline
  2. ^ "Summary of IDF ground activity in Lebanon", Israel Defense Forces, 2006-08-10.
  3. ^ Peacekeeping force won't disarm Hizbollah, [[Telegraph.co.uk]], "A UN official estimated the deaths at 500"
  4. ^ "Analysis: Hezbollah's recovery timetable", UPI. "Israel identified 440 dead guerrillas by name and address, ... Amidror estimated, Hezbollah's death toll might be as high as 700."
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  46. ^ [2]
  47. ^ [3]
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  62. ^ "NO LET UP IN ISRAELI OFFENSIVE", Special Broadcasting Service, 2006-07-25.
  63. ^ (Spanish) "Naharía, la ciudad del norte israelí donde una argentina murió bajo fuego de Hezbollah", Clarín, 2006-07-13.
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  69. ^ PM apologizes for UN observers' death, criticizes Annan. ynetnews.com (2006-07-27).
  70. ^ "Israel rejects UN call for 72-hour halt in fighting; France 'regrets' decision", Haaretz, July 29, 2006.

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