2024 Iran–Israel conflict

2024 Iran–Israel conflict
	Part of the Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
	; Above: Missile interceptions in Lower Galilee, Israel, during the October 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel. Below: An IDF F-35I Adir departs from a military base in Israel to attack Iran during the October 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran.
Date	1 April 2024 – 26 October 2024
Location	Iran; Iraq; Israel; Syria; West Bank; Lebanon; Jordan; Yemen; Red Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Strait of Hormuz;
Status	Prelude to the Iran–Israel war (ongoing)
Belligerents
Israel; Supported by:; United States; United Kingdom; France; Intelligence:; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates	Iran; Supported by:; Axis of Resistance: Ba'athist Syria; Houthis; Hezbollah; Islamic Resistance in Iraq; Badr Organization; True Promise Corps;
Commanders and leaders
Benjamin Netanyahu; Israel Katz; Herzi Halevi; Tomer Bar; Donald Trump; Joe Biden; Pete Hegseth; Lloyd Austin; Keir Starmer; John Healey; Rishi Sunak; Grant Shapps; Emmanuel Macron; Michel Barnier; Sébastien Lecornu; Gabriel Attal;	Ali Khamenei; Masoud Pezeshkian; Ebrahim Raisi; Mohammad-Reza Gharaei Ashtiani; Aziz Nasirzadeh; Mohammad Bagheri; Abdolrahim Mousavi; Alireza Sabahifard; Hossein Salami; Amir Ali Hajizadeh; Bashar al-Assad; Ali Abbas; Ali Tawfiq Samra; Abdul-Malik al-Houthi; Naim Qassem; Hassan Nasrallah X; Ahmad al-Hamidawi; Mohammad al Tamimi; Hadi al-Amiri; Sheikh al-Tamimi;
Units involved
Israel Defense Forces Israeli Air Force; Air Defense Command; Home Front Command; United States Armed Forces United States Army Erbil Patriot battery ; ; United States Navy USS Arleigh Burke; USS Carney; ; United States Air Force 379th Air Expeditionary Wing; ; CENTCOM; British Armed Forces CDS; Royal Air Force RAF Akrotiri; ; French Armed Forces French Navy; French Air and Space Force; Royal Saudi Armed Forces (claimed) Royal Saudi Air Defense;	General Staff AJA Iran Air Defense Force; ; IRGC NEHSA; Quds Force; ; Syrian Armed Forces SAADF; Hezbollah's military Redwan Force; Yemeni Armed Forces (SPCTooltip Supreme Political Council)
Casualties and losses
1 Israeli civilian dead (indirectly); 35 Israeli civilians injured; Tel Nof, Nevatim airbases damaged ; Intelligence base in Golan Heights damaged; MSC Aries seized;	19 killed Consulate annex destroyed; 170 drones intercepted; Air defense battery and radar system destroyed; Material damage to SAA and Hezbollah military installations;
	2 Syrian civilians killed; Shrapnel in Jordan

In 2024, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict escalated to a series of direct confrontations between the two countries. On 1 April, Israel bombed an Iranian consulate complex in Damascus, Syria, killing multiple senior Iranian officials. In response, Iran and its Axis of Resistance allies seized the Israeli-linked ship MSC Aries and launched strikes inside Israel on 13 April. Israel then carried out retaliatory strikes in Iran and Syria on 19 April.

The Israeli strikes were limited, and analysts say they signaled a desire to de-escalate. Iran did not respond to the attack, and tensions de-escalated back down to the proxy conflict.

Other actors participated in the conflict as well. The United States, United Kingdom, France, and Jordan intercepted Iranian drones to defend Israel. Syria shot down some Israeli interceptors, and Iranian proxies in the region also attacked Israel.

Tensions increased after the 31 July assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, in Tehran, Iran. The killing of Haniyeh occurred a few hours after the 2024 Haret Hreik airstrike in Lebanon that assassinated Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr. Iran and Hezbollah pledged retaliation. On 1 October 2024, Iran launched a series of missiles at Israel. Israel then carried out more retaliatory strikes against Iran on 26 October.

Several months later in June 2025, the Iran–Israel war began featuring similar missile and drone strikes being exchanged between the two countries at a heightened intensity.