Iran Update

Annika Ganzeveld, Ashka Jhaveri, Andie Parry, Johanna Moore, and Nicholas Carl



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Click here to view ISW’s interactive map of Israeli ground operations. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report.

Key Takeaways:

• Iranian-backed Iraqi actors are trying to install their preferred candidate as Iraqi parliament speaker as part of their ongoing campaign to expel US forces from Iraq.

• Israeli forces have continued targeting the remaining Palestinian fighters and militia infrastructure in the northern Gaza Strip.

• The IDF announced that it withdrew the 36th Division from the Central Governorate of the Gaza Strip.

• The IDF 646th Paratroopers Brigade Combat Team (assigned to the 99th Division) continued to conduct clearing operations in Nuseirat in the Central Governorate of the Gaza Strip.

• The IDF 98th Division continued clearing operations in the southern Gaza Strip.

• Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that Hamas’ “Khan Younis Brigade is gradually disintegrating as a fighting force.”

• The Gaza Strip is experiencing the longest, large-scale internet blackout since the Israel-Hamas war began.

• The al Quds Brigades fired rockets from the Gaza Strip targeting Sderot in southern Israel.

• The al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades announced the establishment of a “military council” to plan attacks on Israeli targets “in every corner of the Earth.”

• Two West Bank residents conducted a car-ramming attack in Raanana, killing one civilian and wounding 17 others.

• Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian fighters five times across the West Bank, compared to the weekly average of nine attacks per day.

• Lebanese Hezbollah conducted eight attacks from southern Lebanon into northern Israel.

• Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech detailing the state of the Israel-Hamas war and ongoing Iranian-backed escalation against the United States throughout the region.

• The Islamic Resistance in Iraq—a coalition of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias—claimed four attacks on three US positions in Iraq and Syria.

• The Houthis continued attacking and harassing US naval forces and commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

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ISW and CTP has launched an interactive map of Israeli ground operations to accompany our daily campaign assessments of the Israel–Hamas war. This product complements the daily static maps that ISW-CTP produces with high-fidelity and, where possible, street-level assessments of the war in Israel.

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