Shafaq News- Middle East

More than 5,000 people have been killed across the Middle East in the first month of military hostilities between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other, since fighting erupted on February 28, according to casualty figures compiled by Reuters, officials, and rights monitoring organizations.

Iran has recorded the highest death toll among all affected countries, according to HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency), a US-based rights monitoring organization. The group reports 3,527 people killed since the war began, including 1,606 civilians and at least 244 children.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) reported Friday that at least 1,900 civilians have been killed and 20,000 wounded in US and Israeli strikes on Iran to date. It remains unclear whether these figures include the 104 deaths the Iranian military attributed to the sinking of an Iranian warship by a US submarine off the coast of Sri Lanka on March 4.

Lebanon

Lebanese authorities report 1,345 people killed in Israeli strikes since March 2, including at least 124 children. Two informed sources told Reuters that more than 400 Hezbollah fighters have been killed since the group launched attacks on Israel on March 2. It is not confirmed whether the official Lebanese tally includes combatant deaths.

The Lebanese Armed Forces separately reported at least nine soldiers killed, the majority in the south. Three Indonesian peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were also killed in two separate incidents— one involving an unidentified explosion, the other a projectile.

Iraq

Iraqi health authorities report at least 108 people killed since the war began, among them civilians, members of the PMF (Popular Mobilization Forces)— an umbrella of predominantly Shiite armed factions formally integrated into the Iraqi state security structure— Iraqi Army soldiers, and fighters from the Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Security officials at an Iraqi port separately confirmed that a foreign crew member was killed in an attack targeting tankers near the facility.

Israel

Israel's emergency medical service reports 19 were killed by missile fire from Iran and Lebanon. The Israeli military states that 10 soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon. Israeli forces also killed an Israeli farmer near the Lebanese border on March 22 in a friendly-fire incident.

Israel's Ministry of Health reported Friday that 6,594 wounded have been evacuated to hospitals since the start of military operations against Iran. As of Friday, 125 patients remain hospitalized: two in critical condition.

United States

Thirteen US service members have been killed. The US military confirmed six deaths following the crash of a military refueling aircraft in Iraq; seven others were killed during operations against Iran. A US official told Reuters that 12 American soldiers were wounded —two critically— in an Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

United Arab Emirates

UAE authorities report 11 people killed in Iranian attacks, including two military personnel.

Qatar

Qatar's Ministry of Defense reports seven people killed on March 22 when a helicopter crashed over Qatari territorial waters following a mechanical failure during a routine mission. Four were Qatari military personnel, one was a Turkish member of the joint Qatari-Turkish forces, and two were technicians.

Kuwait

Kuwaiti authorities report seven killed in Iranian attacks, including three civilians, two from the Interior Ministry, and two from the armed forces.

West Bank

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent and the Palestinian Authority’s news agency WAFA, four Palestinian women were killed, and 13 others were injured when “an Iranian missile debris or a munition” fell in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Syria

Syria's official state news agency SANA reported four people killed when an Iranian missile struck a building in the southern city of Sweida on February 28.

Bahrain

Bahrain's Interior Ministry reports two people killed in two separate Iranian attacks, the most recent of which struck a residential building in Manama.

Oman

Oman’s state news agency reported that two people were killed in a drone strike on an industrial zone in Sohar on March 13, the first fatalities recorded in the sultanate, which has hosted mediation talks between the United States and Iran. A shipping company separately reported that a crew member died after a projectile struck a tanker off the coast of Muscat.

Saudi Arabia

The Saudi civil defense said that two foreign workers were killed, a Bangladeshi and an Indian, by an “unspecified military projectile” that hit a residential area in Al-Kharj, southeast of Riyadh.

France

The French authorities confirmed the death of one soldier and the injury of six others in a drone attack in northern Iraq, where French forces were conducting counterterrorism training.