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Report Israel Has Suffered 281 Killed, 1,115 Wounded Since End of Six-day War

January 7, 1969
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Military authorities said today that Israel had suffered 281 killed and 1,115 wounded since the end of the Six-Day War in June, 1967. The Arabs lost 600 guerrillas dead and 1,500 captured, plus a substantial number of casualties among regular Arab armies. The authorities said several hundred Jordanian regulars and irregulars were believed to have been killed inside Jordanian territory. There were 1,280 border incidents reported, 920 of them on the Jordanian front.

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