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.
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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
|
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|
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
|
|
Palestinians Killed by Palestinians (
Intrafada) |
|
|
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).
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