March 1 – 6, 2026 · Israel Theater
March 1 – 6, 2026
Iran's Revolutionary Guard answered within hours, naming its response Operation True Promise IV — the fourth in a series of direct Iranian strikes on Israel that had begun in 2024. Waves of ballistic missiles and drones struck Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Israeli military facilities. Unlike the largely telegraphed exchanges of 2024, these were sustained and unannounced, and Israeli air defenses — layered but finite — were saturated repeatedly over several days. Israel recorded 39 military and contractor deaths and 31 civilian deaths across the war, with 7,834 injured.
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