(Ha'aretz) Ze'ev Schiff - The number of Israeli fatalities in the current conflict with the Palestinians exceeded 1,000 last week. Only two of the country's wars - the War of Independence and the Yom Kippur War - have claimed more Israeli lives than this intifada, which began on September 29, 2000. According to Israeli numbers, the current conflict has claimed the lives of 2,124 Palestinians, for whom a list of names exists. Palestinian sources put the number of Palestinian casualties at 2,736. The Israeli figures show that of the various Palestinian groups and organizations, Hamas has suffered the highest number of fatalities: 466. The intifada has claimed the lives of 408 members of Fatah's Tanzim organization, while Islamic Jihad has lost 205 of its people. The Palestinian security forces (Force 17, the Palestinian police, General Intelligence, and the counter security apparatus) have lost 334 of its members during the current conflict.
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