casualties

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Apr 16 09:37:49 PDT 2002


Someone - Paula, maybe? - asked the other day about casualty figures in the Israeli-Palestinian fight. I just added up B'Tselem's numbers, to counter an Israeli Zionist on my college class list.

Doug

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total deaths (summary) ----------------------

from the first Intifada (Dec 1987) through Jan 2002

Palestinians 2,329

civilian 2,166

military 163

Israelis 666

civilian 454

military 212

al-Aqsa Intifada (September 29, 2000-April 14, 2002)

Palestinians 1,173

civilian 932

military 241

Israelis 434

civilian 290

military 144

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detail (from B'Tselem) <http://www.btselem.org/English/Statistics/index.asp>

Palestinians Killed in the Occupied Territories (including East Jerusalem), since the Beginning of the Intifada (Dec. 9, 1987) untill the end of Janua ry 2002

Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli security forces 1,965 Palestinians security personnel killed by Israeli security force 163 Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli civilians 126

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Israelis Killed in the Occupied Territories (including East Jerusalem), since the Beginning of the Intifada (Dec. 9, 1987) untill the end of January 2002

Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians 179 Israeli security forces personnel killed by Palestinian civilians 109 Israeli security forces peronnel kiiled by Palestinian security forces 24

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Total Casualties in Israel from the Beginning of the Intifada (Dec. 9, 1987) untill the end of January 2002

Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli security forces 48 Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli civilians 27 Israeli civilians killed by Palestinian civilians 275 Israeli security forces personnel killed by Palestinian civilians 79

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Fatalities in the al-Aqsa Intifada,: 29 Sept. 2000-14 April 2002

Please note: As of March 31st, 2002, the information provided concerning casualties in the Occupied Territories is only partial, due to difficulties in obtaining information. The figures on casualties within Israel are complete. B'Tselem will continue to update the figures as further information is obtained.

893 Palestinian civilians were killed by Israeli security forces' gunfire in the Occupied Territories, of whom 199 were minors under the age of 18.

Ages of the minors killed: Forty One minors were age 17, Thirty Three were age 16, Thirty Seven were age 15, Thirty were age 14, Twenty One were age 13, Eight were age 12 ,Seven were age 11, Seven were age 10, Three were age 9, Five were age 8, Two were age 7, One was age 6, One was age 5, One was age 4, One was age 3, and One was a four month old baby girl.

At least 64 of the civilians killed were extrajudicially executed by Israel. In the course of these assasinations 14 additional civilians were killed.

235 Palestinian security forces personnel were killed by Israeli security forces' gunfire, including One minor age 17. One of them was extrajudicially executed by Israel and Three were killed during assasinationss of Palestinian civilians.

17 Palestinian civilians were killed by Israeli civilians, including One Two month- old baby girl.

Five foreign Citizens were killed by Israeli security forces gunfire.

113 Israeli civilians were killed by Palestinians, 13 of them were minors under the age of 17: Two were aged 17, Three were age 16, Four were age 14, One was age 13, One was age 11, One was a 10 month-old baby girl and One was a 5 month-old baby boy. At least Six of them were allegedly killed by persons affiliated with the pna

Five foreign citizens were killed by Palestinian civilians.

105 members of the Israeli security forces were killed by Palestinians. Eight of them were killed by Palestinian security forces gunfire.

At least 34 Palestinian civilians were killed by Palestinians due to suspicion of collobarting with israel. Some of them had Israeli citizenship. Two of them were executed by the Palestinian authority and Four were killed by Palestinian security forces.

Three Palestinian civilians were killed by Palestinian civilians after being convicted in the murder of a Palestinian security officer who had killed Palestinians suspected of collaboration with Israel.

One 12 year old boy was killed by armed palestinians during a confrontation with palestinian civilians who were trying to prevent them from shooting at Idf posts

Eleven Palestinian civilians, Three of them minors, were killed by Palestinians security forces in circumstances unrelated to suspicion of collaborating with israel.

Within Israel

22 Palestinian civilians, residents of the Occupied Territories, were killed by Israeli security forces gunfire. One of those killed was a minor aged 14.

Six members of the Palestinian security forces were killed by Israeli security forces gunfire.

177 Israeli civilians were killed by Palestinians, residents of the Occupied Territories. 39 of them were minors under the age of 18. Of them: Six were age 17, Seven were age 16, Ten were age 15, Five were age 14, One was age 13, One was age 12, One was age 10, One was age 8, One was age 7, One was age 4, One was age 3, One was a two years old baby, One was a Eighteen month old baby, One was a nine month old baby, and One was a seven month old baby. Ten of the Israeli civilians were killed by members of the Palestinian security forces.

Nine foreign citizens were killed by Palestinian civilians. One of them was a minor, age 16.

39 members of the Israeli security forces were killed by Palestinian civilians residents of the Occupied Territories.One of them was killed by a member of the Palestinian security forces.



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