US and Israel attacking Iran at ‘record pace’, war monitor says

Airwars says first days of US-Israeli Iran strikes ‘hit significantly more targets than any campaign in recent decades’.

The United States and Israel have attacked Iran at a pace that far surpasses other recent conflicts, research group Airwars says, as the US and Israeli governments have pledged to press on with their deadly bombardment.

In a report published on Friday, Airwars said the initial days of the US-Israeli assault against Iran resulted in “significantly more targets [hit] per day than any campaign in recent decades”.

That includes Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which began in October 2023, as well as the US-led campaign against ISIS (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria in 2014.

Airwars noted that US and Israeli officials said they struck about 4,000 targets across Iran in the first four days of their offensive, which began on Saturday.

“In 100 hours, the US and Israel declared hitting more targets in Iran than in the first six months of the US-led Coalition’s bombing campaign against the so-called Islamic State,” said the UK-based nonprofit, which investigates civilian harm in armed conflict.