Thousands of people have been killed across the Middle East in the Iran war, which began when the U.S. and Israel struck Iran on February 28. Those strikes triggered Iranian attacks on Israel, US bases and the Gulf states, while opening a new front in Lebanon.
According to the latest death tolls reported, at least 3,461 people have been killed since the war erupted, with 1,551 of those being civilians, including at least 236 children. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Friday that at least 1,900 people have been killed and 20,000 injured in Iran in the U.S.-Israeli strikes so far.
Lebanese authorities say 1,238 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since March 2, including at least 124 children. In Iraq, at least 100 people have been killed since the start of the crisis, according to Iraqi health authorities.
Thirteen service members have been killed in the U.S., six were confirmed dead after a U.S. military refuelling aircraft crashed over Iraq, while seven others have been killed in action during operations against Iran. Ten people have been killed in Iranian attacks in the UAE, including two army soldiers.
Seven people were killed on March 22 in a deadly helicopter crash in Qatar's territorial waters after a technical malfunction during 'routine duty.' Four of those killed were Qatari armed forces personnel, one was a Turkish serviceman from the Qatar-Turkey joint forces and two were technicians working for Turkey's defence manufacturer ASELSAN.
Four Palestinian women were killed in an Iranian missile attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Four people were killed when an Iranian missile struck a building in the southern city of Sweida on February 28, state news agency SANA said.
Two people were killed in two separate Iranian attacks, with the most recent hitting a residential building in the capital Manama, according to the interior ministry. Two people were reported killed on March 13 in a drone strike on an industrial zone in Sohar province, marking the first fatalities inside the country.
One French soldier was killed and six others were wounded after a drone attack in northern Iraq, where they were providing counter-terrorism training.
