Israel says Gaza war cost military USD 2.5 billion
September 03, 2014  00:27
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said today that the direct cost of the 50-day military offensive in the Gaza Strip was more than USD 2.5 billion. "The expenditure on Operation Protective Edge military expenditure, the direct expenditure is more than nine billion shekels," Yaalon told an economic conference in Tel Aviv. 

"We attacked over than 6,000 targets, more than 5,00 of them by the air force, about 900 from land and sea," he said referring to tank, artillery and naval fire.
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