[News] Mapping Israel’s expanding battlefronts across the Middle East

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 Mapping Israel’s expanding battlefronts across the Middle East

*Israel has launched nearly 35,000 attacks across five countries over the
past 20 months.*
[image: INTERACTIVE - Mapping Israel attacks-1750845166]
[Al Jazeera]
By Mohamed A. Hussein <https://www.aljazeera.com/author/husseinmoh>
Published On 25 Jun 2025 -
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A fragile ceasefire
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remains in place between Israel and Iran, one day after US President Donald
Trump announced a truce, ending 12 days of fighting that erupted following
Israeli strikes on Tehran’s nuclear and military sites.

An analysis of data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project
(ACLED) shows that between October 7, 2023, and just before Israel attacked
Iran on June 13, 2025, Israel carried out nearly 35,000 recorded attacks
across five countries: the occupied Palestinian territory, Lebanon, Syria,
Yemen, and Iran.

These attacks include air and drone strikes, shelling and missile attacks,
remote explosives, and property destruction.

The majority of attacks have been on Palestinian territory with at least
18,235 recorded incidents, followed by Lebanon (15,520), Syria (616), Iran
(58) and Yemen (39).

Israel’s long-range air war

While the bulk of Israel’s attacks have concentrated on nearby Gaza, the
occupied West Bank, and Lebanon, its military operations have also reached
far beyond its immediate borders.

Israeli fighter jets have extended their reach by hundreds and even
thousands of kilometres, striking targets about 550km (roughly 340 miles)
away deep inside Syria, as well as approximately 1,500km (900 miles) away
in Iran, and Yemen, up to 2,000km (1,200 miles) away. These long-distance
strikes have significantly widened the geographic scope of the conflict,
marking a shift towards more regionally expansive military engagement.

These operations have been made possible by Israel’s fleet of advanced
US-supplied aircraft, including F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, as well as the
stealth-capable F-35 – the most sophisticated combat aircraft in Israel’s
arsenal. The country has also relied heavily on drones for surveillance and
targeted strikes.
[image: INTERACTIVE_ISRAEL_MILITARY_OCT11_2023-1697022456][Al Jazeera]

The map below shows the locations and quantity of Israeli attacks carried
out between October 7, 2023, and June 13, 2025, in five countries up to
2,000km (1,200 miles) away.

Attacks on Gaza

After more than 628 days of relentless bombardment, blockade, and ground
operations, Israel’s devastating assault in Gaza, widely described by many
experts, human rights organisations, and international observers as
genocide, is continuing.

According to the latest casualty figures
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/18/gaza-tracker> from the
Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, at least 56,077 people have been
confirmed killed and 131,848 injured.

Thousands more are feared dead, buried under the rubble.
[image: INTERACTIVE - Israel attacks Gaza tracker death toll ceasefire June
24 2025-1750763717][Al Jazeera] Attacks on the occupied West Bank

Israel is applying many of the tactics used in its war on Gaza to seize and
control territory across the occupied West Bank.

On January 21, just one day after a ceasefire took effect in Gaza, Israeli
forces launched a large-scale military campaign across several cities in
the northern occupied West Bank. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees
(UNRWA) described it as “by far the longest and most destructive operation
in the occupied West Bank since the second intifada in the 2000s.”

According to an analysis by the British research group Forensic Architecture
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/27/mapping-israels-military-campaign-in-the-occupied-west-bank>,
Israel has used building demolitions, armoured bulldozers, and air strikes
to establish a permanent military presence in areas such as Jenin, Nur
Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps. Satellite imagery shows widespread
destruction, with entire neighbourhoods flattened and roads reconfigured to
facilitate troop movements and surveillance.

The United Nations estimates that these operations have displaced at least
40,000 Palestinians. Over the past 20 months, Israeli forces and settlers
have killed nearly 1,000 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank,
including more than 200 children.
Israel-Lebanon cross-border attacks

On November 27, 2024, a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into
effect, bringing an end to nearly 14 months of cross-border fighting that
killed thousands of people.

As in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, Israeli attacks
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/13/mapping-one-year-of-cross-border-attacks-between-israel-and-lebanon>
left widespread destruction in their wake, damaging numerous villages in
southern Lebanon and entire neighbourhoods in Beirut.

Between October 7, 2023, and October 18, 2024, Israel, Hezbollah, and other
Lebanese groups exchanged more than 13,600 cross-border attacks. Of these,
approximately 83 percent (11,238 incidents) were carried out by Israel.


[image: INTERACTIVE - Israel-Lebanon cross-border attacks-1728804675][Al
Jazeera] Attacks on Syria

Since December 10, 2024, just two days after the stunning collapse of more
than 53 years of the al-Assad family, Israel has waged a campaign of aerial
bombardment that has destroyed much of Syria’s military infrastructure,
including major airports, air defence facilities, fighter jets and other
strategic infrastructure.

Over the past six months, Israeli forces have launched
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/4/mapping-israels-expanding-air-attacks-across-syria>more
than 200 air, drone or artillery attacks across Syria, averaging an assault
roughly every three to four days, according to ACLED.

The map below shows the ACLED-recorded Israeli attacks between December 8
and May 30.

https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/22948775/embed

Attacks on Yemen

Israel has also targeted Houthi-controlled infrastructure in Yemen,
including Sanaa International Airport, Hodeidah Port, and several power
stations. These strikes, which intensified in late 2024 and continued into
2025, are intended to weaken Houthi military capabilities following their
missile and drone attacks on Israel in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

[image: INTERACTIVE_YEMEN_CONTROL_MAP_MAY2_2025-1746167501]
[image: Sanaa airport]A satellite image shows the destroyed main terminal
and control tower at Sanaa International Airport in the aftermath of an
Israeli air strike, in Sanaa, Yemen, on May 7, 2025 [Maxar
Technologies/Handout via Reuters] Attacks on Iran

On June 13, 2025, Israel initiated a major escalation
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/15/what-is-irans-irgc-and-who-has-israel-killed>
by launching a large-scale series of air and drone strikes deep into
Iranian territory. This marked a significant shift in the conflict, as
Israel targeted multiple sites across Iran, including military
installations, weapons depots, and infrastructure linked to Iran’s regional
influence and missile capabilities.

Using open source intelligence, including publicly circulated images and
videos on social media, media reports, as well as visual identification of
destroyed locations, Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit, Sanad, has mapped
some key Israeli and US strikes on Iran, as well as major Iranian attacks
on Israel.

These attacks are shown on the maps below.

*Israel Strikes on Iran*

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/CzQLx/5/

[image: INTERACTIVE - Iran most significant strikes on Israel
map-1750246877][Al Jazeera]
Source: Al Jazeera
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