So far, Israel has suffered great human and economic losses as a result of the missile strikes of the Palestinian resistance, which came in response to the occupation's incursion into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the launch of air strikes on the Gaza Strip.
An Israeli army spokesman said that more than 2,000 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel.
"For the first time since the Gaza war in 2014, Israel has suffered this magnitude of damage: destroyed homes, destroyed cars, and an oil facility was hit," the French news agency reported.
Al-Jazeera correspondent Elias Karam spoke about some of the human losses that Israel has suffered so far, the most important of which are:
- has
so far killed -ofaqa sources Alsmh- 9 Israelis
-pinhm Jenda- while others were injured and 564 injuries because of the
rockets fired by
varying resistance.
The neutralization and disruption of many vital economic facilities
;
The recent bursts of rockets towards Be'er Sheva cut off electricity to areas in the west of Beersheba and many towns in its vicinity.
Trains stopped
from Tel Aviv and from central to southern Israel.
Work in the area of extracting natural gas
from the Mediterranean has
stopped
, and last Wednesday, the American Chevron Corporation said that it had closed the "Tamar" Israeli natural gas platform located in the eastern Mediterranean, based on instructions from the Israeli Ministry of Energy, as a wave of unrest intensified In the region.
The Ministry of Energy indicated that Minister Yuval Steinitz ordered the closure of the gas platform last Tuesday afternoon to be cautious, and after consulting with security officials and experts in the energy sector.
Tamar is a natural gas field located in the Mediterranean Sea, about 90 kilometers west of Haifa, and pumps about 10 billion cubic meters of gas annually.
The closure decision came after a huge fire broke out in the oil pipelines between the cities of Ashkelon and Eilat due to a missile fired from the Gaza Strip, according to the official Kan channel.
Targeting the oil pipeline
between Ashkelon and Eilat.
The closure of shops in some areas
, and an unprecedented decline and decline in commercial and economic transactions in the Israeli money market, stock exchange and banks, while the Israeli currency (shekel) recorded a decline of 1.4% against the dollar.
The Federation of Israeli Manufacturers stated that the damage - to the economy within 3 days of the rocket fire from Gaza - exceeded $ 160 million.
Suspending studies,
and stopping all cultural and sports activities.
- The suspension of flights at Ben Gurion Airport
, and many American airlines, such as United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines, decided to cancel the planned direct flights. Between the United States and Israel, as other international companies decided to take the same step.
In addition to these damage and property losses, the cost of each Iron Dome interceptor missile amounts to more than $ 150,000, with the use of interceptor missiles in 48 hours reaching more than $ 50 million, while the cost of only one raid is estimated by the Israeli Air Force. Tens of thousands of dollars, and hundreds of raids have already been carried out.
The Public Accountancy of the Ministry of Finance, Shira Greenberg, estimates that - in terms of the damage caused to the Israeli economy - a military operation that takes a few days will not be felt, but if Israel enters into a military campaign and a comprehensive confrontation of up to a month, the losses will be doubled in all areas, and the sums may reach To several billion dollars.