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How many countries has Israel attacked in 2025?

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Israel has attacked more countries than any other country this year. In 2025, Israel attacked at least six countries, including Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria, and Yemen. It also carried out strikes in Tunisian, Maltese and Greek territorial waters on aid flotillas heading for Gaza.

According to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), an independent conflict monitor, from January 1 to December 5, Israel carried out at least 10,631 attacks, marking one of the broadest geographic military offensives in a single year.


How are attacks measured?

ACLED collects and records reported information on political violence, demonstrations, and other select non-violent, politically important events from local, national and international news sources and international bodies.


For mapping Israeli attacks over this past year, we filtered for violent events including air and drone strikes, shelling and missile attacks, remote explosives, and other armed attacks.

These events involve violent attacks by Israeli forces; however, they exclude the significant rise in attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Additionally, they do not cover other Israeli assaults, such as home demolitions or raids that occur daily.


Where has Israel attacked the most?

Gaza has remained the deadliest area, with Israel killing more than 25,000 people this year and injuring at least 62,000. Israel has violated a ceasefire in Gaza, which took effect at noon on October 10, hundreds of times, killing at least 400 Palestinians and injuring 1,100. Israel also repeatedly violated the first ceasefire earlier in 2025, eventually ending it.

According to ACLED, in 2025, up to December 5, 2025, Israel attacked:

- Gaza and the occupied West Bank 8,332 times
- Lebanon 1,653 times
- Iran 379 times
- Syria 207 times
- Yemen 48 times
- Qatar once
- Tunisian waters twice, Maltese and Greek waters once each

These statistics are based on verified reports and likely undercount the actual number of attacks due to reporting gaps in conflict zones.


Over the year, Israel has launched at least 8,332 attacks across Palestine – an average of 25 a day.


This includes at least 7,024 attacks across Gaza and 1,308 across the occupied West Bank.

Despite an earlier ceasefire that started on January 19, which was also broken by Israel by March 18, it continued attacks across Gaza, including on those seeking food aid.

Israel has reduced Gaza to rubble and forced the displacement of two million people. Satellite imagery from March 18 through May 22 shows an area in Gaza City packed with thousands of displaced people.


Israel has also accelerated its attacks across the West Bank, launching the largest military assault in decades as it seeks to suppress resistance and tighten control in areas including Jenin, Tulkarem and the Nur Shams refugee camps.

Additionally, and not included in this count, are settler violence events, which have surged this year.

So far, in 2025, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has documented a record 1,680 settler attacks across more than 270 communities - an average of five per day.


A Palestinian, Yahya Dalal, 32, inspects cars burned in an Israeli settler attack in Huwara in the occupied West Bank, on November 21, 2025

Despite a ceasefire with Hezbollah, Israel launched more than 1,653 attacks across Lebanon this year, averaging nearly five attacks a day.

Even after the ceasefire took hold in November 2024, Israel carried out frequent strikes, largely concentrated in southern Lebanon but extending to the Bekaa Valley and the outskirts of the capital, Beirut.

The Israeli army continues to station soldiers in five high-altitude locations in southern Lebanon despite a formal commitment to withdraw from the area.

Satellite imagery from Dhayra in southern Lebanon shows entire areas flattened by Israeli attacks.

Continues with attacks on Iran, Syria, Yemen, Qatar, International Waters
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2025/12/29/all-the-countries-israel-attacked-in-2025-animated-map

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 29 December 2025