How many shells, rockets and bombs has Israel launched at Gaza?

[pokerfan]

Because all I hear about is rockets launched from Gaza to Israel. Seems to me, looking at the casualty figures, it would be a hell of lot more being fired the other direction.

[MrNJ]

1. No, not more. Actually a lot fewer

It's just that Israeli munitions are reaching targets.

Which should serve to remind Hamas to
a) Don't start war with Israel
b) Don't start war with Israel that you have no chance of winning because Israel has superior offensive and defensive capability.

[4now]

5. Israel kills more children too.

[Luminous Animal]

7. Actually more. See post #6.

[pokerfan]

8. Right, because 155mm howitzers are precision artillery

and can level entire neighborhoods with one shell. :eyes;

I just want the statistics. If it's such a small fraction of the 3000 ineffective Palestinian rockets then why is this info so hard to find?

[bemildred]

2. Boatloads. Burning lots of fuel too. nt

[elleng]

3. Some of those numbers may be here,

early today from Democracy Now!

http://www.democracynow.org/

Israel has launched MANY, and they've been 'successful.'

[4now]

4. US had to give Israel more because they were running out.

Very interesting question. I would like to hear an answer too.

[Luminous Animal]

6. NY Times reports, 3,834 targets in Gaza struck by Israel versus 2909 rockets launched at Israel BUT

As the publication Mondoweiss points out those numbers are a false parity.

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/inhuman-protects-reality.html

Closer analysis shows that Israel has probably shot and dropped more than five times the tonnage of ordnance that Palestinians have fired at Israel. As of July 16th, Human Rights Watch, reported, Israeli officials said that Israeli attacks in Gaza had “delivered more than 500 tons (1 million lbs) of explosives in missiles, aerial bombs, and artillery fire.” The New York Times “toll in Gaza” shows that 1274 rockets had been launched from Gaza at Israel by that date. Using the 65 kg (143 lbs) weight of a grad rocket frequently fired from Gaza as an average for a rocket from Gaza, Palestinians would have fired approximately 182,182 lbs of ordnance at Israel by that date. Thus Israel had fired approximately 5.49 times as much ordnance at Gaza as Palestinians had fired at Israel as of July 16th. This disparity has likely increased since then as Israel has intensified its attacks, including very heavy shelling. Furthermore, fired Palestinian ordnance is extremely inaccurate compared to targeted Israeli ordnance and thus far less likely to hit anything, and some Palestinian rockets are shot down by Israel’s “Iron Dome.”

Link to the NY Times article http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/15/world/middleeast/toll-israel-gaza-conflict.html?_r=0

[pokerfan]

9. Thanks

Just what I wanted to counter coworkers with the 3000 rockets talking point.

[oberliner]

10. "As the publication Mondoweiss points out..."

Lord save us from any sentence that begins that way.

[Fred Sanders]

11. M109 howitzer fired at long range into Gaza urban area, they have dozens of them....

More guns lobbing shells into schools, mosques, apartment buildings, marketplaces, beaches with boys, refugee camps....only 80 % civilians causality rate.....



Rockets versus hundreds of these: