It has been 13 days since the war in the Middle East started, following the joint military operation conducted by the United States and Israel on February 28 against Iran. More than 2,000 people have died across the warring countries, including those in the Gulf, Lebanon, and France.
Here is the breakdown, country by country, of the number of deaths caused by the conflict, which has spread to Lebanon and ignited the Gulf countries, targeted by Iranian retaliatory fire. The figures have not been independently verified by BFM, for example regarding Iran.
- Iran
At least 1,270 people have been killed, including 40 in an Israeli airstrike on a residential area in Tehran on Monday, March 9, according to state media reports.
The Iranian ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeid, stated that at least 1,332 civilians had been killed in the war. The Iranian army, on the other hand, declared that at least 104 people were killed after an American submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka on March 4.
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Lebanon
At least 687 people have been killed in Israeli strikes, according to Lebanese authorities. The World Health Organization stated that at least 98 of the victims were children. -
Iraq
At least 30 people have been killed, according to Iraqi health authorities. Most of them are part of the Popular Mobilization Forces, a Shiite movement. -
Israel
12 civilians have been killed, including nine in an Iranian missile strike on Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem, on March 1, according to the Magen David Adom emergency service. The Israeli army reported that two soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon, the first casualties in its ranks since the resumption of hostilities with Hezbollah last week, after the group attacked Israel in support of Iran. -
Bahrain
Two people have been killed in two separate attacks carried out by Iran, according to the Interior Ministry. One of the attacks targeted a residential building in the capital Manama. -
Kuwait
Six deaths, including two killed in Iranian attacks, two officers from the Interior Ministry, and two soldiers from the Kuwaiti armed forces, according to authorities. -
Oman
Two people have been killed in a drone strike in an industrial area in the Sohar province, the first victims inside the country, which had hosted mediation talks between the United States and Iran before the conflict began. One person died after a projectile hit the MKD VYOM tanker, flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, off the coast of Muscat, the capital of the country. -
United Arab Emirates
Six people have been killed, according to the country’s Ministry of Defense. -
Saudi Arabia
Two people, one Indian and one Bangladeshi, were killed on March 8 by a projectile falling on a residential area in the city of Al Kharj, said the Saudi Civil Defense. -
Syria
Four people were killed by an Iranian missile strike on a building in the city of Suwayda, in the south of the country, according to the state news agency SANA. -
France
A French soldier was killed on Thursday, March 12, during a drone attack on a Kurdish military base in Iraq, in the Erbil region, announced the French authorities. Six others were injured in the same strike and are “in the hospital” awaiting their “repatriation” according to a statement from the Ministry of Defense. Adjudant-chef Arnaud Frion, a 42-year-old member of the 7th Alpine Hunters Battalion based in Varces, had been deployed in Iraq since January 24. -
United States
Thirteen soldiers have been killed in total according to the US military. Seven of them died in combat operations against Iran. An Iranian drone attack had killed six among the US troops in Kuwait at the beginning of the war. A seventh succumbed to his injuries after an attack in Saudi Arabia on March 1.
Six crew members also died on Friday, March 13, after their American military tanker aircraft KC-135 crashed in western Iraq.
