Iranian attacks on Israel escalated suddenly, resulting in widespread strikes. Iranian missiles targeted a military base in Tel Aviv, causing dozens of military casualties.

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Iran has also been accused of attacking oil and gas facilities, shipping and civilian sites.

At least 24 people have been killed across the Gulf so far, most of them security personnel or foreign workers.

The UAE has reported 13 deaths, including a civilian contractor with its military who was killed in Bahrain. Seven people have died in Kuwait, while Oman, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have each reported two deaths.

In northern Iraq, a French soldier was killed by a drone at a Kurdish military base.

On 25 March, seven Iraqi soldiers were killed in an airstrike in Anbar province, in the west of the country, according to a statement from the Iraqi Ministry of Defence. The statement did not say who had carried out the attack.

Also in Iraq, the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) – formed in the last decade to fight the Islamic State group – said at least 27 of their members have been killed.

In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, four Palestinian women were killed at a beauty salon in an Iranian missile attack.

Turkey said Nato air defences had shot down three Iranian missiles over its airspace. Azerbaijan accused Iran of attacking an airport with drones.

A map shows Middle Eastern countries and locations that have been hit by retaliation from Iran and its allied pro-Iran groups.

The US and its Arab allies have condemned Iran’s attacks, saying “the targeting of civilians and of countries not engaged in hostilities is reckless”.

On 14 March, the Palestinian armed group Hamas in Gaza urged Iran to stop attacking Gulf states, in a rare appeal to its key ally.

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