The Human Cost
22,000
estimated total dead
Each dot below represents 1,000 human lives. Scroll to watch the scale unfold.
21,000 soldiers killed in combat, from wounds, or from disease. Each = 1,000 lives.
1,000 civilians killed — from violence, famine, disease, and displacement. Wars are not fought only by soldiers.
incl. 600 civilians
How Six-Day War's dead compare to other conflicts and events.
776 dead
776 Israelis killed — a shockingly low number that masked the catastrophic cost paid by the Arab armies
5,000 dead
Egypt lost an entire army in Sinai — thousands captured and hundreds of tanks destroyed in 72 hours
12,000 dead
Egyptian dead in Sinai alone — the destruction of Nasser's military was total and stunning
20,224 dead
20,000+ Arab military dead across six days against 776 Israeli losses — an asymmetry without precedent in modern warfare
300,000 dead
300,000 Palestinian and Syrian civilians displaced — the war's political consequences would dwarf its military ones