Palestinian casualties of 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.
Casualties suffered by Palestinians in war:
1920–1948
Conflicts prior to Israel's independence | Actors involved | Combatant deaths | Civilian deaths | Total deaths | Combatant and/or Civilian wounded | Total casualties |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1920 Palestine riots | Not applicable | 4 | 4 | 23 | 31 | |
Jaffa riots | unknown | unknown | 48 | 73 | 121 | |
1929 Palestine riots | 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 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 | 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] | Kingdom of Iraq, Army of the Holy War, Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, Arab Liberation Army, Muslim Brotherhood, |
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?[6] | |
1949–1967 fedayeen war[11][12][13][14] | 2,700–5,000 | unknown | 2,800–5,000+ | considered heavy, at least 500 | 3,200–5,000 | |
Qibya massacre[15] | unknown | 42 | 42 | unknown | 42 | |
Battle of Karameh[16] | 156 | 0 | 156 | 100 | 256 | |
War of Attrition[17][18] | At least 100 | unknown | 100 | unknown | 100+ | |
Black September in Jordan 1970–1971[19][20] | 3,400 | unknown | 3,400 | unknown | 3,400 | |
1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon | 100+ | 0 | 100+ | unknown | 100+ | |
Lebanese Civil War (1975–1977)[21][22] | unknown, thousands | 5,000+ | unknown, At least 5,000 | unknown, At least 4,000 | 5,000–10,000+ | |
1978 South Lebanon conflict | 1,000–2,000 | 0 | 1,000–2,000 | unknown, heavy | 2,000+ | |
1982 Lebanon War[23] | unknown | unknown | 5,000-8,000[24] 15,000-20,000[25][26] |
30,000[25][26] | 15,000-20,000[25][26] | |
War of the Camps[27][28] | 2,000 killed by Amal, 3,000+ killed by other Palestinians | unknown, heavy | 5,000+ | unknown, heavy | 8,000+ | |
First Intifada[29][30] | 1,000 killed by Israel security forces, 1,000 killed by other Palestinians | unknown | At least 2,000 | unknown, heavy | 2,000+ | |
Second Intifada[31][31][32][33] | 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[34] | Fatah |
248 | at least 98 | 600 | 1,000 wounded | 1,600 |
2008–9 Gaza War[35] | 491–709, disputed | 295–962 | 1,166–1,417 | 5,303 | 6,400–6,700 | |
March 2012 Gaza-Israel clashes[36] | 18 | 3 | 21 | 24 | 45 | |
November 2012 Israeli "Operation Pillar of Defense"-Gaza[37][38] | 67–120 | 109 | 174–177 | unknown | ||
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict | 693 | 1617 | 2310 | unknown |
Gallery
- Palestinians returning to Qibya shortly after the Qibya massacre.
- An Arab autobus after being attacked by Irgun during the 1948 Israeli-Arab War.
- Ruins of Lydda after the Israel Defense Forces conquered it in July 1948.
- Destroyed buildings during the Gaza War.
- An Israeli armoured bulldozer used in the Battle of Jenin.
- Destroyed and damaged buildings in Gaza City.
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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
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- 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.
- "British Rule in Palestine".
- Gilbert, Martin (2005). Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
- Morris 2008, pp. 404–406.
- Arab Israel War 1948–1949 Archived 6 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine. 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.
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