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CROSSFIREARABIA – Mayor of Tel Aviv Ron Huldai, said Sunday, that 1000 apartments in the Greater Tel Aviv areas, which covers around 1500 kilometers have been left uninhabitable because of the recent US-Israel war on Iran.
His statement is reverberating in the Hebrew media, being picked up internationally, and repeated on the social media.
“More than 1000 apartments in Tel Aviv are no longer fit for living,” he told the Israeli Channel 12.
The destruction is caused by the 39-day war that resulted in Iranian missiles and debris falling on different parts of the sprawling city.
This war, started through a US-Israeli alliance on Iran on 28 February, was precedented in its destruction across the Middle East region with Lebanon, the Gulf and Israel, as well as Iran itself taking a major battering.
Israel has been particularly hit on a daily basis through ballistic missiles, ordinary missiles and drones with Tel Aviv and its surrounding cities like Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak at the receiving end of theses projectiles.
Some of these missiles weighed up to one and two tons, similar to those Israel used on the people of Gaza, in its two-year genocide starting soon after 7 October, 2023.
Iran fired 650 missiles on Israel according to the Times of Israel. Sources say many, 92 percent of these were intercepted. However, 77 missiles landed on different parts of Israel.
But the extent of the damage increases when it is realized that the debris from those that were intercepted represent significant fall down on different Israeli towns, cities, military bases and infrastructure.
For Israel this war came at a great cost. The Israeli Ministry of Finance estimates that the war on Iran and Lebanon has cost its treasury $17.5 billion. Added to this, and that is yet to be included, is the cost of the destruction, like the 1000 apartments and other destroyed infrastructure.
Israeli media sources report that 30,000 Israelis have filed for compensation from the Israeli Tax Authority because of direct damages to their apartments and buildings, machinery and cars. The filing for the latter stood 6617.
The amount of compensation is aggregated to stand at $2.2 billion, a far higher figure than June 12-day war in 2025 were insurance companies forked out $1 billion in compensation.
Marwan Asmar is a writer from Amman and blogs for crossfirearabia.com
