Israeli casualties of war

Israel Defense Forces Former Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz salutes Yom Kippur War casualties at an official annual memorial service for fallen soldiers.

Israeli casualties of war, in addition to those of Israel's nine major wars, include 9,745 soldiers and security forces personnel killed in "miscellaneous engagements and terrorist attacks",[1][better source needed] which includes security forces members killed during military operations, by fighting crime, natural disasters, diseases, traffic or labor accidents and disabled veterans whose disabilities contributed to their deaths.[2] Between 1948 and 1997, 20,093[3] Israeli soldiers were killed in combat, 75,000 Israelis were wounded, and nearly 100,000[4] Israelis were considered disabled army veterans. On the other hand, in 2010 Yom Hazikaron, Israel honored the memory of 22,684 Israeli soldiers and pre-Israeli Palestinian Jews killed since 1860 in the line of duty for the independence, preservation and protection of the nation, and 3,971 civilian terror victims.[2][5][6] The memorial roll, in addition to IDF members deceased, also include fallen members of the Shin Bet security service, the Mossad intelligence service, the Israel Police, the Border Police, the Israel Prisons Service, other Israeli security forces, the pre-state Jewish underground, and the Jewish Brigade and the Jewish Legion (which served alongside British forces in World War II and World War I respectively).

According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Anti-Defamation League, a total of 1,194 Israelis and foreigners were killed[7][8] and 7,000 wounded[9] between September 2000 and August 2010 by Palestinian terror attacks (most of them during 2000–2005 Second Intifada); while more than 3,000 Israelis[10][11] have been killed and 25,000 have been wounded as a result of Palestinian violence and hostile enemy action (without including wars) since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 until today. Another 685 Jewish residents of Mandatory Palestine were killed between 1920 and 1947 as a result of Arab riots, British anti-Zionist operations and World War II attacks.[12][13] Palestinians killed 1,074 Israelis and wounded 7,520 between 2000 and 2005.[14]

The following tables summarize Israeli casualties by war, conflict or incident.

  1. ^ Israeli Casualties in Battle. Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved on 2011-06-17.
  2. ^ a b "24,293 fallen soldiers and terror victims".
  3. ^ The Arab-Israeli Wars. Mfa.gov.il. Retrieved on 2011-06-17.
  4. ^ Dershowitz, Alan M.. (24 February 2010) MKs probe treatment of disabled IDF veterans... JPost – Israel. Jpost.com. Retrieved on 2011-06-17.
  5. ^ "2010 Memorial Day" (in Hebrew). . NRG Maariv. 19 April 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  6. ^ Aurora Archived 28 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Spanish)
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Victims since September 2000 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ List of Palestinian terror victims. Mfa.gov.il. Retrieved on 2011-06-17.
  9. ^ The Second Intifada/Outbreak of Palestinian Violence September 2000 Archived 12 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Adl.org. Retrieved on 2011-06-17.
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  11. ^ Which Came First – Terrorism or "Occupation"? Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mfa.gov.il. Retrieved on 2011-06-17.
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference Terrorism was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ Palestinian violence and terrorism since September. Mfa.gov.il. Retrieved on 2011-06-17.
  14. ^ "Do targeted killings work?", Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006, Volume 85, Number 2, p. 95-112