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Total Casualties, Arab-Israeli Conflict

(1860 - Present)

As of Yom HaZikaron, 2021, the official IDF figure for the number of Israelis who have fallen in defense of Israel is 23,928.

Event
Year(s)
Jews/Israelis
Arabs/Palestinians
Killed°
Wounded^
Killed°±
Wounded^
1920
6
200
 
 
1921
43
 
 
 
1924
133
 
116
 
1929
135
399
87
91
1936-1939
415
 
5,000
15,000
1948
6,373
15,000
10,000
 
1956
231
900
3,000
4,500
1967
776
2,586
18,300
 
1968-1970
1,424
2,700
5,000
 
1973
2,688
 
19,000
 
1982
1,216
2,383
20,825
30,000
1987-1993
200
 
1,162
 
2000-2005
1,100
8,000
4,907
8,611
2006
164
1,489
1,954
4,400
2008-2009
14
1,272
1,434
5,000
2012
6
240
158
 
2014
73
664
2,100
11,000
Operation Guardian of the Walls 2021 12 342 256### 2,000
Terrorism/Other
1860-Present
9,927
   
TOTAL:
24,981
36,602
91,361
78,038
 
1948-1999
2,805
2000
43
2001
207
2002
457
2003
213
2004
124
2005
53
2006
29
2007
13
2008
36
2009
6
2010
10
2011
21
2012
9
2013
7
2014
24
2015 36
2016 16
2017 13
2018 14
2019 9
2020 3
2021 17
2022 24
TOTAL:
4,189
1987-1993
1,000
1995-1999
53
2000
26
2001
38
2002
37
2003
24
2004
44
2005
99
2006
167
2007
296
2008
91
2009
92
2010-2013
17
2014
30
2015 NA
2016 4#
2017 3#
   
TOTAL:
2,021##

 

 

 

 

* - Casualty numbers were only recorded when a verifiable source was identified.
** - This number reflects total casualties by Palestinians in Israel as well as invading Arab countries Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
^ - The number of wounded, for both Israel and the Arabs, are estimates.
° - Number of killed reflects a combination of military and civilians.
± - Number of Arabs killed are all estimates.
# -  Number of Palestinians killed by Hamas only. 
##
-  According to the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, about 1,500 Palestinians were killed as collaborators between 1987 and September 2002.
### - According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), 256 Palestinians were killed, 128 were civilians, but that figure also seems to include those killed when Hamas rockets misfired and landed in Gaza. The number killed by misfires was estimated as high as 91.


Sources: Wars of the World.
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Palestinian Human Rights Monitor.
The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group.
B'tselem.
The Guardian.
Walter Rodgers, “Palestinians grapple with collaborators,” CNN, (September 4, 2002).
@IDF, (April 27, 2020).
“Response to the escalation in the oPt,” Situation Report No. 1, OCHA, (May 21-27, 2021).
Alex Safian, “Palestinians Were Killed by Hamas Rockets in May? An Estimate,” BESA, (June 27, 2021).