A data analysis conducted by the Sanad News Monitoring and Verification Agency on Al Jazeera Network revealed that sirens sounded in Israel more than 28,000 times from the north to the far south of the country since the operation. Al-Aqsa flood Which was started by the Palestinian resistance from Gaza on October 7, 2023.
The analysis showed that sirens sounded an average of 78 times a day, during one year, due to attacks by resistance factions in Gaza, andHezbollah I Lebanon, andThe Houthis From Yemen, launching missiles and marches from Iraq andIran.
Map of red level sirens from October 2023 to October 2024
The analysis is based on the data of the Israeli Home Front Command provided by the various warning systems, the most prominent of which are Tzeva Adom and Tzofar, meaning red alert, which are systems specialized in sending multiple warnings to Israelis in all cities and regions in the event of various missile attacks.
Since the beginning of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Israel has witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of warnings that covered most cities and regions, including military bases, sites and targets belonging to the army.
The ferocity of the missile attack
On the morning of October 7, 2023, at 6:25, the Al-Qassam Brigades launched intense missile attacks targeting Israeli military sites and command and control systems. The number of missiles in the first strike reached 5,500 rockets and shells, according to the Al-Qassam announcement, which is of course what was reflected in The security scene in large Israeli cities in southern and central Israel.
The data shows that on the day of the October 7 attack, sirens sounded more than 4,175 times inside Israeli cities, most of which occurred between 6:29 a.m. and 1 p.m., and the cities of Jerusalem andTel Aviv Greater, Ramla, Herzliya, Dimona, Lod, and South Jaffa are among the most prominent cities, while the missile attacks focused on targeting Israeli sites and settlements in the south, including cities Ashkelon andBeersheba andAshdod And Arara in the NegevHatzerim Air Base.
Sirens map for October 7, 2023
According to Haaretz newspaper, 39 Israelis, most of them soldiers, were killed by missile and drone strikes during the year, and about half of those killed were in the first bombing on October 7, 2023.
Warning sirens sounded about 8,535 times in October 2023, with the continued launching of rockets and marches from Gaza and Lebanon as Hezbollah entered the front line. The situation in October 2024 was no different from its predecessor, as 4,980 warnings were issued as war reached its peak. Between Hezbollah and Israel, it reached its peak and new cities such as Safed, Haifa, Acre, and Tel Aviv entered the targeting circle.
Map of sirens for October 2023 and 2024
Focus on missile attacks
Data indicate that the vast majority of warnings issued by the home front were related to missile attacks, as red alerts constitute more than 23,67 of the total warnings, making them among the most common warnings, especially in areas close to the front lines, the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip, And towns and sites located in the Upper Galilee, northern Israel.
During the same year, 5,739 warnings were recorded due to air incursions, led by drones, which are used by the Lebanese Hezbollah on a daily basis, and were also launched from Iraq and Yemen several times, which is the weapon that has emerged greatly in this war.
The statistics show how the missile attacks began with intensity in October, reached their lowest levels in February 2024, and then returned to momentum and intensity at the beginning of September and October of this year.
Fears of infiltration were present among the warnings, but to a lesser extent, as 23 warnings were issued throughout the year, especially regarding settlements in the West Bank and the border areas with Lebanon.
The “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation prompted the Israeli army to consider adding an additional warning signal in the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip, in addition to the missile warning, as the new signal is specialized in warning of armed infiltration operations, according to Maariv newspaper.
Cities and regions most affected
The “frontline” area, as known by the Israeli Home Front, which is the northern border of Israel, topped the largest number of warnings, with about 8,728 warnings. The “Gaza Envelope” area, which is the area surrounding the Gaza Strip, witnessed about 3,288 warnings, in addition to about 2,013 warnings in the Upper Galilee. And the “Lachish” region, north of the Negev, with 2,379 warnings.
The data show that the city of Kiryat Shmona in the Upper Galilee, close to the Lebanese border, witnessed the largest number of warnings, as 417 warnings were recorded, which indicates that Hezbollah focused its missile attacks on this city, which the majority of its residents had abandoned, and other northern towns such as Tel Hai also witnessed. Margaliot received a large number of warnings, with 276 and 273 warnings recorded respectively.
Israeli Channel 13 confirmed that the authorities have worked to evacuate more than 23,000 residents from the northern city of Kiryat Shmona since the beginning of the war, and a small number remained there, but Hezbollah demanded that those remaining in the city and other cities and sites evacuate as they are military targets in which the Israeli army is holed up.
In southern Israel, the settlement of Netiv Haasara, near the northern border of the Gaza Strip, witnessed about 240 warnings, and was repeatedly targeted by rockets and missiles.
Iranian attacks
Over the course of the current year, Iran launched two separate missile attacks on Israel. The first was in April, when the Revolutionary Guard launched dozens of missiles and drones at Israeli targets in response to the bombing of the Tehran embassy in Damascus. The second attack was the largest and most violent, which occurred in early October. Last October, Iran used about 180 missiles, some of which hit Israeli military bases, in response to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas political bureau, and Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan. Nasrallah and Abbas Nilfroshan, a leader in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Alarm map on October 1, 2024
Eilat is a battlefield
Over the past years, the city of Eilat was a quiet area far from the fluctuations of the Israeli security reality, until it became a refuge for tens of thousands of residents of southern Israel and the north as well in light of the tension, but with the war it turned into one of the strategic targets of missiles and drones launched from Yemen and Iraq over the months. past.
Israeli media said that the city of Eilat hosted about 35,000 residents from the settlements in the south and the Gaza area, including 6,000 from the city of Sderot.
Warning sirens sounded due to missile attacks from Lebanon more than 12,530 times in one year, and Gaza came in second place, where about 11,160 warnings were recorded, 418 warnings due to missile launches and drones from Yemen, and 60 times due to launches from the territories. Syria, and 29 times from Iraq, according to what the data reported.
