Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
WAR ON IRAN NEWS & HEADLINES:
Why is If Americans Knew covering the war on Iran? It can not be overemphasized that Israel has been the impetus behind US policies and actions vis-a-vis Iran for years. This is especially true right now, under Donald Trump. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing the US to attack Iran for decades.
The American people have made clear that they do not want to go to war with Iran, but Israel partisans and the Israel lobby use their massive political clout to bring about whatever is beneficial to Israel – including putting the US military in harm’s way. For more background on Israel’s role in American wars, watch IAK’s short film, “The Israeli Hit List.”
DEATH TOLL (all numbers are tentative):
- 13 US troops have been killed since the war on Iran began, according to US Central Command (CENTCOM).
- In Israel, 15 people have been killed and 1,929 injured, the majority with minor injuries.
- In Iran, 1,444 people have reportedly been killed since the conflict began.
- In Lebanon, at least 826 people have been killed (at least 91 of them children).
- In other Arab states, at least 46 people have been killed.
IRAN:
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vow ‘to pursue and kill’ Israel’s PM Netanyahu: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reportedly threatened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling him a “child-killing criminal” and saying, “we will continue pursuing him and kill him with full force.”
Strait of Hormuz open to everyone but US, Israel, Iranian FM Araghchi says
U.S./TRUMP ADMINISTRATION:
Trump threatens new attacks on Kharg Island as Iran warns it will ‘set fire’ to US oil interests: Iranian officials warned that any attacks on its oil hub will result in regional oil and gas infrastructure tied to the US and its allies being ‘set on fire and destroyed.’ The United States on Friday attacked military targets on Iran’s main oil hub of Kharg Island.
ISRAEL:
Israel warns US it is running low on missile interceptors: Report: An unidentified US official told Semafor news website that Washington anticipated Israel’s low interceptor capacity, US not facing similar shortage.
Israel denies interceptor shortage, suspects Iran planted story
Shelter crisis: Haifa’s Palestinian neighborhoods deprived* of protection during wartime: Palestinian citizens of Israel say they have no adequate shelter amid the war with Iran, relying on private institutions as the state turns a blind eye.
*NOTE: This is just one of many examples of Israel’s apartheid framework, which extends in various forms across Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and inside Israel (where 21% of residents are Palestinian). Multiple human rights organizations have documented and reported that Israel is indeed practicing apartheid, including: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Israeli human rights groups B’Tselem, and Yesh Din.
LEBANON & MIDDLE EAST:
Entire families wiped out* and towns emptied as Israel’s war on Lebanon intensifies: Communities displaced and destroyed while death toll rises faster than during any previous war in Lebanon.
*NOTE: Gaza has had a similar experience under Israeli bombs: More than 2,700 entire families have been wiped off the civil registry.
Iraqi group claims 8 attacks on US bases in last 24 hours
In Iraq, rising militia strikes leave Washington with few good choices
EUROPE & BEYOND:
Swiss government rejects 2 flyover requests from US related to Iran war
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM GAZA:
(For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For more critical context, skim this, this, and this. To read about a remarkable but underreported, 20-month-long peaceful protest in Gaza against Israel, go here.
(While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to be ongoing, and in its 877th day.)
Three Palestinians were killed on Saturday as Israeli forces continued attacks across the Gaza Strip, despite a ceasefire.
Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 651 Palestinians. Over 1,741 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative.
Israel has so far violated the 11 October ceasefire deal in Gaza at least 1,620 times (as of Feb. 1, 2026). More statistics below.
🚨 BREAKING | A massive dust storm is sweeping across Gaza, engulfing displacement camps where thousands of families live in fragile tents.
With homes destroyed and no real shelter, thick dust fills the air as children, the elderly, and the sick struggle to breathe amid the… pic.twitter.com/WSr4sL8PIN
— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) March 14, 2026
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM:
Every day, Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem endure dozens of incidents like the ones below, at the hands of Israeli soldiers and/or settlers. For background on the West Bank, read this and this. For information on the significance of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, read this and this.)
Israeli Forces Fatally Shoot Palestinian Father, Mother and Two Children in West Bank: Ali Bani Odeh, 37, his wife and two of their children, 5 and 7, were killed in the West Bank’s Tammun when Israeli forces fired on their car. Two other children survived the attack. One of them, age 11, said soldiers told him, “we killed some dogs.” According to Israeli media, the Israeli Police claimed the car had sped toward troops.
Nablus: Colonizers Kill a Palestinian, Injure Three in Qusra: Illegal Israeli colonizers killed a Palestinian, 28-year-old Amir Mu’tasim Mahmoud Odeh, and wounded others on Saturday, after storming the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. Medical sources reported that Odeh succumbed to a live gunshot wound to the chest,
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM ISRAEL:
(Israel is a tiny country, about the size of New Jersey, with a population smaller than the US state of Georgia – about 10 million (of which about 20 percent are Palestinians), yet it is in the news constantly. As has been demonstrated again and again, however, mainstream media rarely covers Israel accurately. IAK gets the facts – sometimes from Israeli media sites, where we can get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions, and that receives $63 million a day from America.)
Israel to Deport Jewish-American Activist Who Reported Car Hitting Palestinian Girl in West Bank: Police say she clashed with the driver who allegedly ran over a five-year-old girl and disrupted public order; she claims questioning targeted her politics and social media, and did not address the collision.
MORE NEWS & HEADLINES:
Western Media Increasingly Frame Trump’s Iran War as Strategic Failure: Major Western outlets increasingly portray Trump’s Iran war as strategically confused, politically costly, internationally isolating and unpopular.
ICYMI, A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
What would ground troops in Iran mean for the US?
‘No clear goal’: lack of Iran war plan has unleashed chaos and could stymie US military for decades, say critics
12 paramedics killed, 1 injured in Israeli airstrike on medical center in southern Lebanon
Israel Uses Iran War as Pretext to Torture Thousands of Prisoners
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – MARCH 14, 2026*:
- At least 73,264 Palestinians killed, 183,839 injured – including:
- At least 72,136 killed (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls), 172,839 injured in Gaza
- At least 1,128 killed (~232 children), 11,700 injured in the West Bank
*NOTE: Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 8,000 more are still buried under rubble (some sources put the number of missing as high as 14,000); 3,000 more are reportedly missing. Only the dead who are brought to hospitals are included in the official fatality count. Additionally, the numbers of injured are very conservative estimates.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – March 14, 2026: ~1,661 – including ~1,139** on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 472 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, about 52 military and civilians (by one count, there have been 59 victims) in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel (these numbers do not include deaths from the conflict with Lebanon or the war with Iran).
By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 281 Palestinian journalists and media workers (as of Jan. 21, 2026); Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 215 and 333 Palestinian journalists killed – depending on the criteria used).
**NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.
- Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated)
- ‘Of Course’: IDF Drops Case Against Soldiers Accused of Raping Palestinian Prisoner
- Don’t Fall for the Regime Change Talk. Israel Is ‘Mowing the Lawn’ in Iran
- Will Israel and the US wreck the Gulf States along with Iran?
- US so far burned through ‘years’ of munitions in Iran war: Report
- How the Israeli Tail Wags the American Dog
- Outdated intel likely led to deadly U.S. strike on Iranian elementary school, sources say
- Pentagon insider says high U.S official Douglas Feith reported to Netanyahu
- In fond memory of Walid Khalidi, the historian of Palestine
- Are we on the precipice of World War III?
- Israeli strategic plans to “remake the Middle East” from the 1950s and since
- Honoring Gaza’s women who refused to let the world look away
- Israel Decided the War, But Trump’s America Fights and Pays the Bill
- Conscientious Objector Group: Phone ‘Ringing Off Hook’ As Huge Mobilization Underway
- U.S. support for Israel continues to plummet, despite media’s best efforts
