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=== Casualties === {{Seealso|Khan Yunis massacre}} British casualties stood at 22 dead<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2006-07-08 |title=Jonathan Steele and Ian Black: An act of folly |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jul/08/egypt.military |access-date=2022-05-19 |website=the Guardian |language=en |quote=British forces suffered only 22 dead, the French 10; Egyptian casualty estimates range from 750 to 2,500.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Doyle |first=Col E. D. |title=Suez affair highlighted Britain's fall from major world power |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/suez-affair-highlighted-britain-s-fall-from-major-world-power-1.101871 |access-date=2022-05-19 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en |quote=In all 3,000 Egyptians were killed, 1,100 in Port Said about 800 of them civilians. The British lost 22 killed, and the Israelis 200. British accounts rarely mention civilian casualties.}}</ref> and 96 wounded,<ref name="Dupuy 1343">{{Cite book |last1=Dupuy |first1=R. Ernest |title=The Collins Encyclopedia of Military History |last2=Dupuy |first2=Trevor N. |date=1994 |publisher=HarperCollins |page=1343 |author-link2=Trevor N. Dupuy}}</ref> while French casualties were 10 dead and 33 wounded.<ref name=":0"/><ref>Eden, Anthony: ''The Suez Crisis of 1956'', p. 206</ref> The Israeli losses were 172 dead and 817 wounded.<ref name="LA Times"/> The number of Egyptians killed was "never reliably established".<ref name="Varble, Derek, p. 91">{{Harvnb|Varble|2003|p=91}}</ref> Egyptian casualties to the Israeli invasion were estimated at 1,000β3,000 dead and 4,000 wounded, while losses to the Anglo-French operation were estimated at 650 dead and 900 wounded.{{Sfn|Schiff|1974|p=70}}<ref>{{Harvnb|Neff|1981|loc=p. 414. Quotes UN report: "thousands of wounded and dead bodies all over Sanai (sic)". Neff estimates 4000 Egyptians wounded and 6000 captured or missing in Sinai and a further 900 wounded by the Anglo-French.}}</ref> 1,000 Egyptian civilians are estimated to have died.<ref name="Varble 1956, p. 90"/>
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