Iran Update

Ashka Jhaveri, Andie Parry, Amin Soltani, Alexandra Braverman,

Kathryn Tyson, Peter Mills, and Nicholas Carl

Information Cutoff: 2:00 pm EST 

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:

• Palestinian militias are likely re-infiltrating into areas of the northern Gaza Strip where Israeli forces previously conducted clearing operations.

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

• The New York Times reported that the IDF now believes that there are more tunnels underneath the Gaza Strip than previously thought.

• The 98th Division conducted clearing operations focused on locating Hamas leadership and degrading Hamas’ Khan Younis Battalion in the southern Gaza Strip.

• The IDF announced Special Forces Unit 217 (Duvdevan) operating under the 89th Commando Brigade withdrew from the southern Gaza Strip.

• A low-level Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander told Israeli intelligence he received military training in Iran before Hamas’ October 7 attack.

• Hamas and Israel reached a deal to supply medicine to Israeli hostages in exchange for additional humanitarian aid inflows to the Gaza Strip.

• The al Qassem Brigades fired rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel.

• Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian fighters four times across the West Bank.

• Lebanese Hezbollah (LH) conducted six attacks from southern Lebanon into northern Israel.

• Iran conducted three drone and missile strikes abroad.



• The Islamic Resistance in Iraq—a coalition of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias—claimed that it conducted a long-range cruise missile attack targeting Israel.

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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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