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<h1>Mapping Israel\u2019s expanding battlefronts across the Middle East</h1><p class="gmail-article__subhead"><em>Israel has launched nearly 35,000 attacks across five countries over the past 20 months.</em></p><div class="gmail-responsive-image"><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/INTERACTIVE-Mapping-Israel-attacks-1750845166.png?resize=770%2C513&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE - Mapping Israel attacks-1750845166" width="467" height="311" style="margin-right: 25px;"></div>[Al Jazeera]<div class="gmail-article-info-block"><div class="gmail-article-b-l"><div class="gmail-article-author-name"><span class="gmail-article-by">By </span><span class="gmail-article-author-name-item"><a class="gmail-author-link" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/author/husseinmoh">Mohamed A. Hussein</a></span></div><div class="gmail-article-dates"><div class="gmail-date-simple"><span class="gmail-screen-reader-text">Published On 25 Jun 2025 - </span><font size="1"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/25/mapping-israels-expanding-battlefronts-across-the-middle-east">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/25/mapping-israels-expanding-battlefronts-across-the-middle-east</a></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail-social-share-buttons"><div class="gmail-update-reading-list"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-update-reading-list"><span class="gmail-update-reading-list__tooltip" role="tooltip"></span></div><a class="gmail-social-share-button" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="Share on Facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Faje.io%2Fufjfkl"></a><a class="gmail-social-share-button" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="Share on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Mapping%20Israel%E2%80%99s%20expanding%20battlefronts%20across%20the%20Middle%20East&source=sharethiscom&related=sharethis&via=AJEnglish&url=https%3A%2F%2Faje.io%2Fufjfkl"></a><a class="gmail-social-share-button gmail-copylink" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="Copy link" href="https://aje.io/ufjfkl"></a><p>A fragile <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/25/live-israel-iran-truce-holds-us-did-not-destroy-iranian-nuclear-programme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ceasefire</a>
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\u2019s nuclear and military sites.</p><p>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.</p><div class="gmail-wysiwyg gmail-wysiwyg--all-content"><p>These attacks include air and drone strikes, shelling and missile attacks, remote explosives, and property destruction.</p>
<p>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).</p>
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<h2 id="gmail-israel-s-long-range-air-war">Israel\u2019s long-range air war</h2>
<p>While the bulk of Israel\u2019s attacks have concentrated on nearby Gaza,
the occupied West Bank, and Lebanon, its military operations have also
reached far beyond its immediate borders.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>These operations have been made possible by Israel\u2019s fleet of
advanced US-supplied aircraft, including F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, as
well as the stealth-capable F-35 \u2013 the most sophisticated combat
aircraft in Israel\u2019s arsenal. The country has also relied heavily on
drones for surveillance and targeted strikes.</p>
<img class="gmail-size-arc-image-770 gmail-wp-image-2401072" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/INTERACTIVE_ISRAEL_MILITARY_OCT11_2023-1697022456.png?w=770&resize=770%2C770&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE_ISRAEL_MILITARY_OCT11_2023-1697022456" width="467" height="467" style="margin-right: 25px;">[Al Jazeera]
<p>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.</p>
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<h2 id="gmail-attacks-on-gaza">Attacks on Gaza</h2>
<p>After more than 628 days of relentless bombardment, blockade, and
ground operations, Israel\u2019s devastating assault in Gaza, widely
described by many experts, human rights organisations, and international
observers as genocide, is continuing.</p>
<p>According to the latest <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/18/gaza-tracker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">casualty figures</a> from the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, at least 56,077 people have been confirmed killed and 131,848 injured.</p>
<p>Thousands more are feared dead, buried under the rubble.</p>
<img class="gmail-size-arc-image-770 gmail-wp-image-3797139" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/INTERACTIVE-Israel-attacks-Gaza-tracker-death-toll-ceasefire-June-24-2025-1750763717.png?quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE - Israel attacks Gaza tracker death toll ceasefire June 24 2025-1750763717" width="374" height="467" style="margin-right: 0px;">[Al Jazeera]
<h2 id="gmail-attacks-on-the-occupied-west-bank">Attacks on the occupied West Bank</h2>
<p>Israel is applying many of the tactics used in its war on Gaza to seize and control territory across the occupied West Bank.</p>
<p>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 \u201cby far the longest and most
destructive operation in the occupied West Bank since the second
intifada in the 2000s.\u201d</p>
<p>According to an analysis by the British research group <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/27/mapping-israels-military-campaign-in-the-occupied-west-bank">Forensic Architecture</a>,
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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<h2 id="gmail-israel-lebanon-cross-border-attacks">Israel-Lebanon cross-border attacks</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>As in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, Israeli <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/13/mapping-one-year-of-cross-border-attacks-between-israel-and-lebanon">attacks</a> left widespread destruction in their wake, damaging numerous villages in southern Lebanon and entire neighbourhoods in Beirut.</p>
<p></p>
<p>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.</p>
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<img class="gmail-size-arc-image-770 gmail-wp-image-3243179" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/INTERACTIVE-Israel-Lebanon-cross-border-attacks-1728804675.png?w=770&resize=770%2C963&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE - Israel-Lebanon cross-border attacks-1728804675" width="373" height="467" style="margin-right: 0px;">[Al Jazeera]
<h2 id="gmail-attacks-on-syria">Attacks on Syria</h2>
<p>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\u2019s military
infrastructure, including major airports, air defence facilities,
fighter jets and other strategic infrastructure.</p>
<p>Over the past six months, Israeli forces have <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/4/mapping-israels-expanding-air-attacks-across-syria">launched </a>more
than 200 air, drone or artillery attacks across Syria, averaging an
assault roughly every three to four days, according to ACLED.</p>
<p>The map below shows the ACLED-recorded Israeli attacks between December 8 and May 30.</p><p><a href="https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/22948775/embed">https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/22948775/embed</a></p>
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<h2 id="gmail-attacks-on-yemen">Attacks on Yemen</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-arc-image-770 gmail-wp-image-3683030" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/INTERACTIVE_YEMEN_CONTROL_MAP_MAY2_2025-1746167501.png?w=770&resize=770%2C963&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE_YEMEN_CONTROL_MAP_MAY2_2025-1746167501" width="373" height="467" style="margin-right: 0px;"></p>
<img class="gmail-size-arc-image-770 gmail-wp-image-3707584" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2025-05-07T221932Z_267026752_RC2VCEA95LP8_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-YEMEN-1747148165.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C543&quality=80" alt="Sanaa airport" width="467" height="329" style="margin-right: 25px;">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]
<h2 id="gmail-attacks-on-iran">Attacks on Iran</h2>
<p>On June 13, 2025, Israel initiated a major <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/15/what-is-irans-irgc-and-who-has-israel-killed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">escalation</a>
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\u2019s
regional influence and missile capabilities.</p>
<p>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\u2019s fact-checking unit,
Sanad, has mapped some key Israeli and US strikes on Iran, as well as
major Iranian attacks on Israel.</p>
<p>These attacks are shown on the maps below.</p><p><b><font size="4">Israel Strikes on Iran</font></b></p><p><a href="https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/CzQLx/5/">https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/CzQLx/5/</a></p>
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<img class="gmail-size-arc-image-770 gmail-wp-image-3783507" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/INTERACTIVE-Iran-most-significant-strikes-on-Israel-map-1750246877.png?w=770&resize=770%2C962&quality=80" alt="INTERACTIVE - Iran most significant strikes on Israel map-1750246877" width="374" height="467" style="margin-right: 0px;">[Al Jazeera]
</div><div class="gmail-article-source">Source: Al Jazeera</div>
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