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There have been many casualties in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict with the toll rising daily. The vast majority of deaths have been civilians, mostly Lebanese. This has led to condemnation of both sides. Note that the ongoing nature of the conflict makes accurate figures difficult, and sources can be conflicting.

Overall

Casualties of warring parties

Entity Civilian Military
File:Amal movement.jpg Amal Movement 17 dead
File:Flag of Hezbollah.svg Hezbollah 74 reported by Hezbollah[1], 500+ dead claimed by IDF[2]
 Israel 44 dead [3] [4]
~381 wounded [5] 		119 dead [3][4]
~400 wounded[6][7]
File:Lebanese Communist Party Flag.png Lebanese Communist Party 12 dead [8]
 Lebanon 1,600 dead
3,600 wounded.[9][10][11][12][13][14] 		46 dead
~100 wounded
File:PFLP-logo.png PFLP-GC 2 dead [15]
 United Nations 2 dead 4 dead
12 wounded. See main article
Total 999-1650+ dead
4,950+ wounded		 237-669+ dead
512+ wounded

Foreign civilian casualties

N.B. The ongoing nature of the conflict does not permit an accurate assessment of the precise number of casualties.

Lebanese

  • According to various media, between 1,000 and 1,200 people are reported dead. Additionally, there have been between 480 and 1100 people wounded, and over 1,000,000 have been made refugees, with an unknown number of missing civilians in the south. [34][35][36][37][38]
  • On 28 July Lebanese Health Minister Mohammad Khalifeh announced that hospitals in Lebanon had received 401 dead Lebanese people since 12 July. He also reportedly said: "On top of those victims, there are 150 to 200 bodies still under the rubble. We have not been able to pull them out because the areas they died in are still under fire".[39]
  • Hezbollah acknowledges 49 killed. [40][41] IDF Chief of Staff Lt. General Dan Halutz has claimed that close to 100 Hezbollah fighters have been killed at 22 July, in land fighting in South Lebanon.[42] IDF claimed the killing of more than 300 Hezbollah fighters as of August 1. [43]

A report[44] on August 4th, documenting Iran's financial help to the families of Hezbollah fighters, claimed Hezbollah has already lost 500 men, plus 1500 wounded. The report said, that the wounded are being treated in Syria to make the wounded harder to count.

  • As of 8/5, The American University of Beirut Medical Center, the largest and most important hospital in Lebanon, has only enough power to continue operations for a week. A shipment of fuel from the oil tanker Aphrodite is awaiting in the Mediterranean but does not have written assurance of safe passage.[1]
  • According to the Lebanese government's "Council for Development and Reconstruction" the Lebanese damage incurred amounted to US $3.5 billion: US $2 billion for buildings and US $1.5 billion for infrastructure. [45]

Israeli

  • According to Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 117 [3][4] Israeli soldiers have been killed (including one pilot, killed in a collision between two helicopters, and two in another helicopter crash, also four servicemen were killed after INS Hanit was hit), nine more wounded.
  • According to Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 43 [3][4] civilians have been killed, while another 418 civilians were treated in hospitals, 19 of whom were seriously injured, and another 875 treated for shock.[5] Many civilians have left their homes in northern Israel and went south. [citation needed]
  • According to Israeli government Israeli damage is 1.1bn US dollar.

Foreign nationals

  • Seven Canadian members of a Lebanese family from Montreal, including four children, were killed and six severely injured by an Israeli attack on Aitaroun in South Lebanon on 16 July. An eighth member of the family died later from injuries sustained in the blast.[46]
  • A family of four Brazilians, including two children, was killed in the Israeli bombings in Srifa,[47] drawing condemnation from foreign relations minister Celso Amorim.[48] Another Brazilian child was killed in an Israeli strike in Tallousa.[49]
  • Four members of a German-Lebanese family, including two minors, from Mönchengladbach, Germany were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Chehour in southern Lebanon while on vacation.[50][51]
  • The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry has reported that two Kuwaiti nationals have been killed by Israeli bombing.[52]
  • One Sri Lankan the source indicates they are UNIFIL civilian staff, and there is no evidence that a second Nigerian couple was killed in an Israeli bombing.[6]
  • One Iraqi was killed by Israeli bombing.[6]
  • One Jordanian was killed when Israeli missiles hit trucks near Zahleh in the mountains above the eastern Bekaa Valley.[6]
  • A Brazilian businessman was killed in an IAF missile attack on a factory he owned in Lebanon.[53]
  • A Palestinian was killed in an Israeli bombing that hit a Palestinian refugee camp at Rashidiyeh. [54]
  • An Argentine woman who recently immigrated to Israel died 13 July in a Hezbollah rocket attack on Nahariya, Israel.[55]
  • A Nigerian domestic worker was killed during an airstrike as he rode his motorbike south of Tyre on 27 July in an Israeli air raid.[56]
  • An Indian glass factory worker in Lebanon, Devendra Kumar Swain was killed on 21 July by an Israeli bombing.[57]

United Nations

Main article: Attacks on United Nations personnel during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict

UN personnel were subjected to dozens of attacks and near misses from both sides during the present conflict, most prominently the 25 July Israeli bombing of a UNTSO position,[58] which killed four UNTSO unarmed observers (Austrian, Canadian, Chinese and Finnish).[59] Diplomats familiar with the probe say that the strike was carried out with a precision-guided missile.[58]

Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a statement from Rome that he was " ... shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defence Forces."[60] On 26 July 2006, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert phoned Kofi Annan and expressed his deep regret over the death of the four UN observers. He promised that Israel would thoroughly investigate the incident and would share the findings with Annan, but says he was taken aback by secretary general’s statement saying that the Israeli attack on the UN post was "apparently deliberate".[61]

After the attack, Dan Gillerman, Israel's UN representative, said Israel would not allow the UN itself to participate in an investigation of the airstrike that killed the four UN observers.[62]

See also

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