Israeli casualties during the operation totaled 30 dead and 127 wounded.
He further notes that there were no Israeli casualties.
The sources do not vary widely over the data on Israeli casualties.
The Israeli casualties were 5 killed and 16 wounded.
The fighting was fierce, and accounted for nearly half of all Israeli casualties on the southern front.
In the afternoon, all Israeli casualties were evacuated from the area.
The Israeli casualties for the war were 657 soldiers killed and 2,383 wounded.
More than 6,700 Israeli casualties have followed, including nearly 900 deaths.
There were no Israeli casualties, the military command said.
But the critical fact was that there were no Israeli casualties: not one.