I frequently give Tzedaka (charity) to Magen David Adom, the Israeli Red Cross. They recently sent me an email with casualty figures from September through December of 2001. Here is an excerpt:

Between Friday, September 29, 2000 at 07:15 hours, and January 1, 2003 at

8:00:00 hours, UPDATED numbers:



MDA took care of 4939 casualties as detailed below:



611 fatalities, 433 severely injured, 613 moderately and 3282 lightly injured,

among them 11 MDA staff members.



The MDA regions which have been involved:



Gilboa  411 wounded                    

Asher   77 wounded

Yarden   75 wounded                    

Yarkon   608

wounded

Sharon    715 wounded                              

Carmel    202  wounded 

Jerusalem 1943 wounded                         

Dan      368   wounded 

Ayalon

162   wounded                 

Negev  306    wounded

Lachish 72    wounded



80 damaged vehicles – 11 MICUs, 67 standard ambulances and one landrover jeep

and 1 blood mobile.



Stolen vehicles: 2 blood mobiles and 4 standard ambulances

Broken in: 5 standard

ambulances

2 Armored ambulances from the Negev region were hit by bullets and damaged –

front shield and side window. 

This was during a so-called "downturn in the violence." It does not include the Tel Aviv double-bombing from earlier this week.

(And I just have to ask- who steals a blood mobile? Besides vampires, that is.)

  ¶ 10:27 AM