Dissecting IDF propaganda: The numbers behind the rocket attacks
To begin, Israeli spokespeople frequently remind the world that a million Israeli citizens are within range of Gaza rockets, twelve thousand of which have been fired into Israel in the last twelve years, inflicting thousands of injuries and several dead.
However, we are rarely told exactly how many people have been killed by these rocket attacks.
Counting the dead
Below is a list of all the fatalities of rocket and mortar attacks fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel in the entire history of these attacks. Throughout the years of rocket attacks into Israel, a total of 26 people have been killed altogether.
| Date of attack | Name | Age | Location | Weapon |
| 2004.06.28 | Mordechai Yosephov | 49 | Sderot | Qassam |
| 2004.06.28 | Afik Ohion Zehavi | 4 | Sderot | Qassam |
| 2004.09.29 | Yuval Abebeh | 4 | Sderot | Qassam |
| 2004.09.29 | Dorit (Masarat) Benisian | 2 | Sderot | Qassam |
| 2005.01.15 | Ayala-Haya Abukasis | 17 | Sderot | Qassam |
| 2005.07.15 | Dana Gelkowitz | 22 | Moshav Nativ Ha‘asara | Qassam |
| 2006.03.28 | Salam Ziadin* | ? | Nahal Oz | Qassam‡ |
| 2006.03.28 | Khalid Ziadin* | 16 | Nahal Oz | Qassam‡ |
| 2006.11.15 | Faina Slutzker | 57 | Sderot | Qassam |
| 2006.11.21 | Yaakov Yaakobov | 43 | Sderot | Qassam |
| 2007.05.21 | Shirel Friedman | 32 | Sderot | Qassam |
| 2007.05.27 | Oshri Oz | 36 | Sderot | Qassam |
| 2008.02.27 | Roni Yihye | 47 | Sderot | Qassam |
| 2008.05.09 | Jimmy Kedoshim | 48 | Kibbutz Kfar Aza | mortar |
| 2008.05.12 | Shuli Katz | 70 | Moshav Yesha | Qassam |
| 2008.06.05 | Amnon Rosenberg | 51 | Kibbutz Nir-Oz | mortar |
| 2008.12.27 | Beber Vaknin | 58 | Netivot | Qassam |
| 2008.12.29 | Lutfi Nasraladin*† | 38 | IDF base near Nahal Oz | mortar |
| 2008.12.29 | Irit Sheetrit | 39 | Ashdod | Grad |
| 2008.12.29 | Hani al Mahdi* | 27 | Ashkelon | Grad |
| 2010.03.18 | Manee Singueanphon* | 30 | Moshav Nativ Ha‘asara | Qassam |
| 2011.08.20 | Yossi Shushan | 38 | Be’er sheva | Grad |
| 2011.10.29 | Moshe Ami | 56 | Ashkelon | Grad |
| 2012.11.15 | Yitzchak Amsalem | 24 | Kiryat Malachi | rocket |
| 2012.11.15 | Mira Sharf | 25 | Kiryat Malachi | rocket |
| 2012.11.15 | Aharon Smadja | 49 | Kiryat Malachi | rocket |
| Total fatalities in the history of rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza into Israel: 26 | ||||
| Operation Cast Lead: December 27, 2008–January 18, 2009 | ||||
| Operation Pillar of Cloud: November 14, 2012– | ||||
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