JERUSALEM: The widening war between Israel, the United States, and Iran has caused thousands of casualties across the Middle East since it began on February 28, with deaths and injuries reported in Iran, Israel, and several neighbouring countries.
Israeli authorities say at least 15 to 17 people have been killed and nearly 3,000 injured inside Israel during the first two weeks of the conflict, which has now entered its third week.
A total of 2,975 Israelis were injured and taken to hospitals during the first two weeks of the war with Iran, Israel’s Health Ministry said Friday.
Of those, 85 remain hospitalized, including nine in serious condition, the ministry said in a statement posted on the social media platform X.
משרד הבריאות מעדכן כי מתחילת מבצע שאגת הארי. נכון ליום ו’ ה-13 במרץ 2026 בשעה 07:00 בבוקר, פונו לבתי החולים 2,975 נפגעים, מתוכם כעת מאושפזים 85 אנשים:
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The conflict has now entered its third week, with the latest figures reflecting the cumulative toll recorded during the first two weeks of fighting inside Israel.
The Israeli military has separately announced the deaths of two soldiers in combat in southern Lebanon.
Regional escalation intensified after Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on Iran on Feb. 28. Iranian authorities say the strikes have killed around 1,300 people and injured more than 10,000 others inside Iran.
Tehran has retaliated with waves of drone and missile strikes targeting Israel, as well as Jordan, Iraq, and several Gulf countries hosting US military assets, widening the conflict across the Middle East.
Since the United States and Israel unleashed strikes on Iran on February 28, war has spread across the region, and casualties have been reported in countries around the Middle East, reports AFP.
The figures are based on numbers released by governments, militaries, health authorities, and rescue organisations in the affected countries, according to AFP.
United States
The United States has also suffered casualties during the conflict.
U.S. officials say at least 13 American service members have been killed since the war began on Feb. 28, including six crew members of a refuelling aircraft that crashed in Iraq in an incident the military said was not caused by hostile fire.
All Crew Members of U.S. KC-135 Loss in Iraq Confirmed Deceased
TAMPA, Fla. – All six crew members aboard a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft that went down in western Iraq are now confirmed deceased. The aircraft was lost while flying over friendly airspace March 12 during…
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 13, 2026
Around 140 to 150 U.S. troops have also been wounded during the fighting, most sustaining minor injuries, with many already returned to duty.
Iran
Iran’s health ministry said on March 8 that more than 1,200 people had been killed, including around 200 women and 200 children under the age of 12, with more than 10,000 civilians injured.
The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said on March 11 that at least 1,825 people had been killed, including 1,276 civilians — among them at least 200 children — as well as 197 military personnel and 352 people whose status had not been classified.
Due to reporting restrictions, AFP is not able to access the sites of strikes or independently verify tolls in Iran.
Lebanon
Lebanon said on Friday that at least 773 people had been killed in Lebanon since March 2, including 103 children, during fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
The Lebanese army has said three of its soldiers have been killed.
Hezbollah has not announced its losses.
The Gulf
Authorities in Gulf states and the US Central Command (CENTCOM) have reported 26 people killed — 11 of them civilians — since the start of the Iranian attacks.
The rest of those killed were military or security personnel, including seven US service members.
Kuwait’s military and health ministry have reported six deaths: two soldiers, two border guards, and two civilians, one of them an 11-year-old girl.
The United Arab Emirates’ defence ministry has reported six deaths: four civilians and two military personnel who died as a result of a helicopter crash blamed on a technical malfunction.
Saudi Arabia’s civil defence agency has reported two civilian deaths.
Bahrain’s interior ministry has also logged two deaths.
Oman’s maritime security centre reported the death of a mariner at sea and two other people in a drone attack on an industrial area.
Qatar’s Ministry of Interior, meanwhile, has reported 16 injuries and no fatalities.
CENTCOM has confirmed six US service personnel killed in Kuwait and one killed in Saudi Arabia.
Iraq
Armed groups and officials have said at least 46 people have been killed in Iraq since the start of the conflict, according to an AFP tally based on their announcements.
France said an Iranian drone killed a French soldier in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region.
The US military said a refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, killing all six crew members, in an incident not caused by hostile or friendly fire.
Pro-Iran armed factions and security sources say 32 Iran-backed fighters were killed in strikes they blame on the United States and Israel.
Kurdish rebel groups said at least five Iranian Kurdish militants were killed in strikes attributed to Iran on their positions in the north.
Kurdish security sources said one airport guard was killed in a drone attack on Erbil airport.
Officials said one civilian was killed by rocket shrapnel following a strike southeast of Baghdad.
Jordan
Jordan’s military spokesman, Brigadier General Mustafa al-Hiyari, said 14 people have been injured in various parts of the country due to falling debris from Iranian missiles and drones.
No deaths have been reported.
Syria
Syrian state media reported eight people were injured by falling debris from exchanges of fire between Iran and Israel on Monday.
Separately, there was damage at several locations in central Israel on Friday, AFP journalists reported, after blasts were heard following warnings from the military that missiles were fired from Iran.
An AFP journalist saw thick black smoke billowing into the sky from a building just off a highway on the outskirts of the commercial hub of Tel Aviv.
Israel’s Magen David Adom first responders said they had “searched locations where reports were received; no casualties were located.”
Later, other damage was reported at several locations.
In Rishon LeZion, near Ben Gurion International Airport, there was a crater in a residential street, while the roof of a nearby car was buried in dirt.
Elsewhere, a house was set ablaze in the town of Shoham, around 20 kilometres away.
An AFP journalist saw fire crews spraying water on the roof of the building to douse the flames.
“A fire was started by a missile and the shrapnel that came down afterwards,” Jonathan Saksek, a volunteer firefighter from the United States, told AFP.
“Families were displaced. There was a lot of damage. Thankfully, they made it out okay.”
