Editing 1982 Lebanon War (section)

====Lebanese, Palestinian, and Syrian casualties====
[[File:Syrian Tank burning in Tzuk Track.jpg|thumb|A Syrian tank burning on the road outside Jezzine]]
Estimates of numbers of the casualties in the conflict vary widely.<ref name="Tucker2010">{{cite book|author=Spencer C. Tucker|title=The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts &#91;5 volumes&#93;: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U05OvsOPeKMC|volume=2|date=8 October 2010|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-948-1|page=732}}</ref>

By the end of the first week, 14 June 1982, [[International Red Cross]] and Lebanese police figures said that 9,583 had died and 16,608 injured. By the end of the second week, they said up to 14,000 people died and 20,000 were injured, mostly civilians.<ref name="Fisk">[[#reffisk2001|Fisk, pp.&nbsp;255–257]]</ref>

During the [[Siege of Beirut]], by late August 1982, Lebanese sources put the death toll in Beirut at 6,776. This figure included victims of the 4 June 1982, bombing, which occurred two days before the operation officially started. Lebanese police and international doctors serving in Beirut put the number of civilian casualties at about 80%.<ref name="Dunigan2011">{{cite book|author=Molly Dunigan|title=Victory for Hire: Private Security Companies' Impact on Military Effectiveness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZJtWi-zF4IC&pg=PA103|date=28 February 2011|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-7459-8|pages=103–}}</ref> According to American military analyst Richard Gabriel, all factions in the conflicts agree that between 4,000 and 5,000 civilians died during the siege caused by military activity of all sides. He states that most of the observers that were present on the ground and other relevant sources in Lebanon agree that estimates of 8,000–10,000 are too high.<ref name=Gabriel/>

Accurate numbers of total casualties are hard to estimate, due to "[t]he chaos of warfare, the destruction of city neighborhoods and refugee camps, the haste with which bodies were buried in mass graves and the absence of impartial agencies".<ref>{{cite news|last=Shipler|first=David K.|title=Toll of Lebanon Dead and Injured Is Still Uncertain in Chaos of War|newspaper=The New York Times|date=14 July 1982}}</ref> Many officials in Beirut, including those of the International Red Cross, claimed that the number of deaths were extremely difficult to estimate correctly. At least one official from a relief organization claimed that in the South about 80% of deaths were civilian and only 20% military.<ref name=Race />

In early September 1982, the independent Beirut newspaper ''An Nahar'' published an estimate of deaths from hospital and police records covering the period from 6 June to 31 August 1982.<ref name=Race>{{cite journal|title=The 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon: the casualties|journal=Race & Class|year=1983|volume=24|issue=4|pages=340–3|doi=10.1177/030639688302400404|s2cid=220910633}}</ref> It claimed that 17,285 people were killed: 5,515 people, both military and civilian, in the Beirut area; and 2,513 civilians, as well as 9,797 military forces, including PLO and Syrians, outside of the Beirut area.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mid-Range Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century|url=http://necrometrics.com/20c100k.htm#Lebanon|access-date=4 August 2013}}</ref>

The Lebanese authorities gave a figure of 19,085 killed and 30,000 wounded with combatants accounting for 57% of the dead and civilians 43% in 1982. They do not include the estimated 800–3,500 killed in the Sabra and Shatila massacre.<ref name=Race />

Richard Gabriel estimated that roughly 2,400 PLO fighters were killed during the war, of whom about 1,400 were killed throughout southern Lebanon and another 1,000 killed during the Siege of Beirut. Gabriel also estimated that between 5,000 and 8,000 civilians died during the war. Some later estimates have put the total figure at 18–19,000 killed and more than 30,000 wounded, most of them civilians. 80% of villages in South Lebanon were damaged, with some completely destroyed.<ref name=Gabriel/><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Saad-Ghorayeb |first1=Amal|title=Factors Conducive to the Politicization of the Lebanese ShĪ'a and the Emergence of Hizbu'llĀh|journal=Journal of Islamic Studies|date=2003|volume=14|issue=3 |page=300|doi=10.1093/jis/14.3.273}} cited in Waines An Introduction to Islam (2004)</ref><ref name="Waines2004">{{cite book|author=David Waines|title=An Introduction To Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y6qOwAACAAJ|date=1 October 2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Limited|isbn=978-81-7596-189-0|page=285}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Casualties of Mideast Wars|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-08-mn-2592-story.html|access-date=1 October 2014|work=Los Angeles Times|agency=Associated Press|date=8 March 1991}}</ref><ref name="DonnellyHoward-Hassmann1987">{{cite book|author1=Jack Donnelly|author2=Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann | author2-link = Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann |title=International Handbook of Human Rights|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RmMCmvYBQtMC&pg=PA247|date=1 January 1987|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-24788-0|pages=247–}}</ref> The Israeli government maintained that about 1,000 Palestinian fighters and 800 Lebanese civilians died during the invasion, excluding the siege of Beirut.<ref name=payment>{{cite news|title=Lebanon Demands Payment|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|date=16 November 1984}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Walsh|first=Edward|title=Lebanon, Israel Resume Talks on Troop Pullout|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=16 November 1984}}</ref> [[Anthony Tucker-Jones]] estimated that about 1,500 PLO fighters were killed. [[Kenneth Pollack]] estimated that 1,200 Syrian soldiers were killed and about 3,000 wounded during the war.<ref name=Pollack/>