Hazem Abu Murad died while deactivating an unexploded Israeli bomb along with half a dozen men from his team on 13 August, according to police sources. Until then, the greatest expert in this task in Gaza had calculated that Israel (whose truce would reach 26) had dropped some 18,000-20,000 tons of bombs, missiles and artillery from land, sea and air. The writer Ali Abunimah compared this number of explosives in the well-known area of The Electronic Intifada to the atomic bomb launched by the United States in Hiroshima in 1945.

Kiloton is the amount of energy that releases a thousand tons of TNT when it explodes. The Hiroshima atomic bomb released 16 kilotons, as well as 16,000 tons of TNT, which were destroyed by TNT. In Gaza, Israel has dropped between 18.000-20,000 tonnes, while in Gaza it has shattered thousands. In addition, the artificialist Murad estimated that an additional 1,000 tons of explosive, abandoned in the streets, houses and corners of the Gaza Strip, has not crashed.

From Gaza, on the other hand, 3,360 projectiles were sent in Israeli accounts, most of them rockets and mortars. Although most of those who use Hamas militiamen donated by Iran are believed to have between 150 and 200 kilos of explosive, experts estimate that they are about 20-50 kilos. If 4,000 rockets were finally burned, counting 50 kilos would result in about 200 tons of explosive: if a grain were 150 kilos, it would not be more than 400 tons.

Ali Abunimah relies on information published by the Israeli press and by the Army itself to argue that Israeli artillery has burned only five of those munitions, between 30,000 and 40,000, which exploded in 2009 in operation Cast Lead. Many of them are cucumbers 155 millimeters long, which when exploded capture an area of 50 x 50 meters of land.

The tanks, for their part, have massively used ammunition such as Kalanit or Hatzav. They may burst into the air before touching the ground or exploding inside buildings after piercing the walls. Danny Peretz, awarded in Israel for the creation of these launchers, explained to the journalists that they are necessary because the current wars are asymmetrical: “Now the struggle is not a fight against tanks, you have to be able to attack people inside buildings as on the outside, going around places where they are hidden.”

Striking the “more or less reserved” places has become one of the main tactics of all the wars of the twenty-first century. What will be done if the enemies – rebels, terrorists… – have remained among the civilian population... Like the fire of tanks and artillery, Israel has followed the same tactics of asymmetrical war from the air to the offensive in Gaza. The Shujaiya neighborhood was only "given away" 100 bombs of one tonne of weight that, laser-driven, damage the area of 300 meters.

Planned destruction

Military strategies cite as an example of asymmetrical war the war that Israel is waging on Hamas in Gaza. As Wikipedia says, while Israel has a very powerful army, Palestinian organizations do not have military equipment on that scale; instead, they use asymmetrical tactics: snipers, cross-border shootings, mortar attacks or bomb suicides.

Israel, with its massive bombing, has shown in Gaza how asymmetrical the consequences of this war are. Firstly, on the victims.

in Israel: 66 deaths (6 civilians), 450 injured (80 civilians). In Gaza: 2,150 deaths (1,400-1,600 civilians), 11,000 wounded, 250 prisoners captured. For every Israeli who has died in the accident, 32 Palestinians have fallen. But the asymmetry is greater if you look at the population of both countries. In Gaza, more than 1,816,000 people live, more than one in a thousand have been killed by the 50-day war. Israel has 8,146,000 inhabitants; if the proportion of Gaza is maintained, almost 9,000 people would have been killed.

Refugees who have fled their homes because of the attacks have been between 5,000 and 8,000 in Israel. More than 520,000 people had left their homes in Gaza by 5 August, which was one third of the total population. 17,000 homes have been completely destroyed, while another 37,000 are damaged so as not to be able to reside in the area. In percentage terms, one quarter of the apartments in Gaza City and three quarters of the apartments in Beit Hanoun.

No overall calculation of the economic consequences has been observed. Wikipedia says that the great attack on Gaza, the Cast Lead of 2009, caused damage of $4 billion, multiplying Gaza's total annual gross domestic product by three. The injury they have left in the economy for those 50 days has been greater for some experts, at least three times more than the previous one. How does a region outweigh losing a month and a half to nine times the gross domestic product of the year?

Israeli Army bombs have destroyed one tenth of the factories in Gaza, more than 360 units in Gaza. Many small, but also large. Al Awda had been in the food industry for 40 years, employing 450 workers, including cakes, ice cream and other products. It had recently expanded its facilities at the request of the United Nations to produce food for refugees. The bombs have destroyed it.

The electricity service has also been affected by fire. The power station on Salaheddin Street, the largest in the region, is nothing today. In a year they will have to adapt to generators, as will citizens, hospitals and workplaces.

In agriculture, baserritars have lost more than 17,000 hectares of orchards and growing fields. The region has lost more than half of all the chickens and chickens it had. Cowboys also abound.

Trond Husby, the head of UN development programmes in Gaza, has said that the level of destruction in this region is worse than in Somalia, Sierra Leon, South Sudan or Uganda. To mention unemployment, if before the last battles it was in 45%, 700,000 people in families without income...

On 26 August, with official peace, the people of Gaza are trying to make a living. In addition to international aid, everything you have to sell or buy must go through strictly closed border controls. Israel’s permits to go through the few who are open are given by drops. The Gaza Strip would have to fill 1,000 trucks every day, as there are no more than 350 and not always. Even in the truce the strong gives peace.