People who know their way around the Israeli institutions
and can legitimately navigate them via the internet, got reams of data they
were not too sure what to do with, so they passed them on to me to correlate
and crunch. I did so, and the result has been a rough estimate of what Israel is
suffering in terms of lost lives and injuries as a result of its war against
Hamas over the past dozen days or so.
Given that the war has been ongoing for that length of time,
the numbers I have are preliminary, sometimes not clear as to what they refer,
and not always apparent to which day they belong. And so, it is near to
impossible to tell what happened on each day of the war, but possible to have
an overall view of what happened in the aggregate. This done, you can tell what
happened on average each day of the war when you divide the sums by the number
of days.
What I can tell is that approximately 250 people would
normally die every day in Israel
from old age, diseases, accidents, crimes and what have you. This number
suddenly increased by anywhere between 10 percent and 20 percent during each
day of the war. This means somewhere between 35 and 50 extra people died each
and every day. This can only be due to the war but the trouble is that the
Israelis do not want to admit Hamas is having any success with its rockets, so
they did not designate a category under the rubric of war casualties.
What they did instead is assign each death to an existing
category such as heart attack, accident, suffocation and what have you. In
total, it is safe to say that there has been somewhere between 400 and 600
fatalities attributable to the war, which is a number comparable to what the
Palestinians have suffered.
As to the number of injured, I could not extract that from
the data I was handed. But it is realistic to say that for every one that died
there would have been 3 to 5 injured. Thus, the number of injured can be
estimated as falling between 1,000 and 3,000 with varying degrees of severity …
some of whom will eventually succumb to their injuries and die.
Like they say, the first casualty of war is the truth which
does not seem to apply to the Palestinians who are disarmingly open and up
front. But the saying does apply to the Jews whose DNA is powered by the motto:
the lie, the damned lie and nothing but the lie.