Over 7,100 Israelis Wounded Since Start of War with Iran
In an official statement, the ministry disclosed that 114 patients remain hospitalized, among them two in critical condition and 14 sustaining serious injuries. The ministry stopped short of releasing a death toll, but the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel put the number of Israelis killed since hostilities erupted on Feb. 28 at a minimum of 31.
The casualty figures reflect the sustained intensity of Iranian retaliatory strikes on Israeli territory — a campaign launched in direct response to the joint US-Israeli offensive on Iran that began Feb. 28, which has killed more than 1,340 people on the Iranian side, including former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Tehran has since struck back with waves of drones and missiles targeting not only Israel, but also Jordan, Iraq, and Gulf states hosting US military assets, while simultaneously tightening its stranglehold on commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
The conflict has shown little sign of geographic containment. Fighting has spilled across the northern frontier into Lebanon, where the Israeli army has carried out airstrikes and launched a ground offensive, drawing retaliatory cross-border strikes from Hezbollah into northern Israel — widening the arc of destruction across an already volatile region.
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