Lebanon war cost Israel 5.7 billion dollars: report
The cost of the month-old war in Lebanon on Israel's economy is estimated at nearly 5.7 billion dollars, the top-selling Yediot Aharonot daily reported Tuesday.
The total cost represents 10 percent of the state budget or around half of the defence budget, the newspaper said.
Official estimates put the cost of the massive air, sea and land operation launched after the July 12 Hezbollah border attack at around 2.3 billion dollars.
The damage caused by the 3,970 rockets fired into northern Israel during the 33 days of conflict tops 1.3 billion dollars.
An estimated 12,000 homes were demolished or damaged and 750,000 trees burned.
The drop in national production is also estimated at 1.3 billion, the cost of aid transfers to the local authorities in northern Israel at around half a billion, and the damage to nature at 220 million dollars.
The newspaper warned that the impact of the war on Israel's economic growth -- which stood at six percent last year -- could eventually turn out to be higher and raise the total bill to almost seven billion dollars.
According to the newspaper, 1,600 cars, 600 businesses and 100 factories were also damaged by Hezbollah rockets.
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So what?
how about the estimated cost of the lives of lebanese people killed during this war?
homes can be rebuilt,bridges can be reconstructed,but can lives be restored ?
The total cost represents 10 percent of the state budget or around half of the defence budget, the newspaper said.
Official estimates put the cost of the massive air, sea and land operation launched after the July 12 Hezbollah border attack at around 2.3 billion dollars.
The damage caused by the 3,970 rockets fired into northern Israel during the 33 days of conflict tops 1.3 billion dollars.
An estimated 12,000 homes were demolished or damaged and 750,000 trees burned.
The drop in national production is also estimated at 1.3 billion, the cost of aid transfers to the local authorities in northern Israel at around half a billion, and the damage to nature at 220 million dollars.
The newspaper warned that the impact of the war on Israel's economic growth -- which stood at six percent last year -- could eventually turn out to be higher and raise the total bill to almost seven billion dollars.
According to the newspaper, 1,600 cars, 600 businesses and 100 factories were also damaged by Hezbollah rockets.
End of report
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So what?
how about the estimated cost of the lives of lebanese people killed during this war?
homes can be rebuilt,bridges can be reconstructed,but can lives be restored ?
posted by Huda Nassar at 9:23 AM
2 Comments:
Dear Huda, you nailed down the most sensitive aspect of this tragedy in the end of your post: indeed, they all make calculations and sum up using mathematical and logical operations... I realize that these are necessary, but I find them so morbid, at least now, cause there can still be found bodies under the rubbles, they haven’t finished counting the ones who died… A quote from Guy de Maupassant crosses my mind now : « Une vie ne vaut rien, mais rien ne vaut une vie ». It’s so true. And so sad.
sarah..i still cannot trust them..I don't know why I have uneasy feeling but the whole ceasefire thing is worrying me
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