AP Reports on ISRAEL War Damage Figures
• Deaths: 157 total — 118 soldiers and 39 civilians.
• Wounded: 860.
• Number of buildings destroyed: no official figures, but tax authorities report more than 6,000 claims for damaged buildings and more are expected as displaced people return home.
• Number of strikes: 3970 Hezbollah rockets, 901 of them inside cities.
• Number of displaced people: 300,000.
• There were no school days lost because they were not in session.
• Many businesses in the north of the country were closed throughout the war. No specific figures were available.
• Tourism: $80 million of lost revenue during the war, many hundreds of millions in projected losses in the future months because of the war.
• Damage to transportation system: Not immediately available.
• Overall damage: Media reports say about $3 billion in damages and lost revenue, but do not give a source for that estimate. Israeli Finance Minister Avraham Hirschon could give no precise figure but said it would be "many billions."
• Access to water and electricity: Isolated water and electricity lines hit; repairs made within 48 hours.
And Then Again, I often wonder what the news would have looked like during World War II if today's Liberal Press were allowed the anarchist roll that they enjoy in the modern world.
posted by Abu Teddy at 5:11 PM
3 Comments:
unfortunet, i'd like to see what the lebanese losses were. I am willing to wager that they are ten times worse. My condolances go out to the families of the soldiers. Although I cannot feel as bad for soldiers killed in combat in an agressive and offensive war looked for by Israel.
The death and destruction on the Lebanon side is 10 perhaps 20 times worse than on the Israeli side. We are fighting over 2 captured Israeli soldiers and another 8 that were killed initially. Lebanon houses the Hezbollah. Hezbollah attacks Israel.
Is it worth it to Lebanon?
The response will always be disproprotionate. I also feel very badly for all those inocents in Lebanon who were harmed. I wish there was another way. But there isn't.
prove that there isnt.
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