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BY the way, Slonimer, to continue one point from earlier on in the discussion re the Scuds and the Gulf War, which further digging into Wikipedia revealed:
46 Scuds were launched at SA, 10 caused significant damage, with a total of 29 dead (all but 1 US soldiers in that army barracks). I assume that the many misses can be attributed to the size of SA, and that it’s mostly desert.
42 Scuds were sent at Israel, 4 of those landed in the West Bank. As far as I remember, many were sent at the greater Tel Aviv area, a highly populous region. Wiki confirms that thousands of homes and apartments were damaged- so the missiles did hit their mark (or at least the debris of missiles intercepted by Patriots, which was just as dangerous). Yet only 2 direct deaths (the other site I quoted before said 1). Why? There are so many stories of people who should have been home, but weren’t, those who normally stayed in the sealed room, only to decide at the last moment to go to the miklat, or vice-versa, and thus were saved from a missile hit. Logic said that Israel was a dangerous place to be at that time, yet those who lived there were zoche to tremendous nissim.