By Nayera Abdallah and Menna AlaaElDin
April 10 (Reuters) – Thousands of people have been killed across the Middle East in the Iran war, which began when the U.S. and Israel struck Iran on February 28. Those strikes triggered Iranian attacks on Israel, U.S. bases and the Gulf states, while opening a new front in Lebanon.
Hostilities were largely halted after Iran and the U.S. reached a two-week ceasefire deal on April 8.
Here are the latest death tolls reported. Reuters has not independently verified them.
IRAN
More than 3,000 people were killed throughout Iran during the war, Iran’s forensic chief told state media on Thursday.
U.S.-based rights group HRANA said 3,636 people have been killed since the war erupted. It said 1,701 of those were civilians, including at least 254 children.
The group said on Wednesday it will stop publishing daily reports on attacks and casualties on the back of the “change in the situation on the ground and the uncertainty surrounding whether the ceasefire will hold or collapse.”
The Iranian military said at least 104 people were killed in a U.S. attack on an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka on March 4.
LEBANON
Lebanese authorities say at least 1,830 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since March 2. The heaviest Israeli bombardment of the war in Lebanon on April 8 killed more than 300 people.
At least 14 Lebanese soldiers have been killed since March 2 in Israeli strikes on Lebanon, with most of the casualties in southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese army. Thirteen state security personnel were also killed in an Israeli strike on a government building in the southern city of Nabatieh on April 10, the Lebanese presidency said.
More than 400 fighters from Hezbollah have been killed since the Lebanese armed group launched attacks in a new war with Israel on March 2, two sources familiar with the group’s count told Reuters. It is unclear if the death toll reported by the authorities includes those fighters.
Meanwhile, three United Nations peacekeepers from Indonesia were killed in two separate incidents in southern Lebanon, one from a roadside explosion, the other involving a projectile.
IRAQ
At least 117 people have been killed since the start of the crisis, according to Iraqi health authorities. Those include civilians, members of the Iran-affiliated Shi’ite Popular Mobilisation Forces, U.S.-allied Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, police and army.
On April 7, at least three people were killed and five others wounded when rockets fired from the direction of Kuwait hit a house in Khor al-Zubair near Basra, security and health officials told Reuters.
One foreign crew member was killed in an attack on tankers near an Iraqi port, according to port security officials.
ISRAEL
Missiles launched from Iran and Lebanon have killed 23 people in Israel, according to Israel’s ambulance service. The Israeli military said 12 of its soldiers have also been killed in southern Lebanon.
Separately, Israeli forces misfired and killed an Israeli farmer near the border with Lebanon on March 22.
UNITED STATES
Thirteen military service members have been killed, with more than 300 wounded, U.S. Central Command said. Six were confirmed dead after a U.S. military refuelling aircraft crashed over Iraq, the U.S. military said, while seven others have been killed in action during operations against Iran.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Twelve people have been killed in Iranian attacks, including two army soldiers, according to the UAE authorities. The latest fatality occurred when debris from an intercepted attack fell on Abu Dhabi’s Habshan gas facilities.
QATAR
Seven people were killed on March 22 in a deadly helicopter crash in Qatar’s territorial waters after a technical malfunction during “routine duty,” according to Qatar’s defence ministry. No further details were provided.
Four of those killed were Qatari armed forces personnel, one was a Turkish serviceman from the Qatar-Turkey joint forces and two were technicians working for Turkish defence manufacturer Aselsan.
KUWAIT
Authorities have reported seven deaths, including three people killed in Iranian attacks, two interior ministry officers and two army soldiers.
WEST BANK
Four Palestinian women were killed in an Iranian missile attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
SYRIA
Four people were killed when an Iranian missile struck a building in the southern city of Sweida on February 28, state news agency SANA said.
SAUDI ARABIA
Two people were killed and 12 injured when a projectile fell on a residential location in Al-Kharj city on March 8, southeast of the capital Riyadh. Attacks on energy facilities killed one Saudi national from the industrial security personnel of the Saudi energy company, the state news agency said on April 9.
BAHRAIN
Two people were killed in two separate Iranian attacks, with one hitting a residential building in the capital Manama, according to the interior ministry.
The UAE’s defence ministry said on March 24 that one of its civilian contractors was killed in an Iranian attack on Bahrain. It identified the contractor as a Moroccan national.
OMAN
Two people were reported killed on March 13 in a drone strike on an industrial zone in Sohar province, marking the first fatalities inside the country, which had been hosting mediation talks between the U.S. and Iran. One person died earlier when a projectile hit a tanker off the coast of Muscat, the vessel’s manager said.
FRANCE
One French soldier was killed and six others were wounded after a drone attack in northern Iraq, where they were providing counter-terrorism training.
(Reporting by Nayera Abdallah, Menna AlaaElDin, Ahmed Rasheed, Emma Farage, Jonathan Allen, Jana Choukeir, Maayan Lubell, and Pesha Magid; Editing by David Gaffen, Daniel Wallis and Hugh Lawson)
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