At least 42 killed, over 7,000 injured in Israel during Operation Roaring Lion against Iran, Hezbollah

With the cessation of active military operations against Iran, following the two-week ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday night, the nation is feeling relief at the prospect of no more ballistic missiles. 

During the six weeks of war, Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel, causing extensive damage and killing dozens of Israelis, including around 30 civilians. 

Not all of the civilians died as a direct result of the Iranian missile strikes; some died from injuries sustained while attempting to reach shelters, or from medical conditions exacerbated by stress or trauma related to the attacks.

The first person killed in the war was a Filipino caregiver, Mary Ann de Vera (32), when a missile struck the apartment where she cared for an elderly woman in Tel Aviv. 

Just two days later, nine people were killed in Beit Shemesh when a missile fell next to a synagogue and several residential buildings, resulting in deaths, including several family members who were together at the time of the attack. 

A few days later, on March 9, Rustam Golumov, 61, and Amid Murtuzov, 40, were killed when an Iranian missile with a cluster warhead impacted near a construction site in Yehud. Cluster munitions from the warhead were reported in at least six communities from that stack, and several other people were injured. 

One week later, Yaron Moshe and his wife, Ilana (both 69), were killed when a missile struck their apartment in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv. 

The following day, a Thai agricultural worker, Chaiwat Waewnin, 34, was killed when a missile hit the area where he was staying in Moshav Adanim. 

On March 22, Ofer Moskovitz (60), a resident of Misgav Am, was killed when IDF fire on a Hezbollah position in southern Lebanon accidentally fell in northern Israel. 

Two days later, Nuriel Dubin, 27, a resident of Margaliot, was killed by a Hezbollah rocket in northern Israel. Ori Peretz, 43, from Nahariya, was killed by a Hezbollah rocket a couple of days later, when he failed to reach his bomb shelter in time. 

Vyacheslav Vidmant, 52, from Ashdod, was killed a couple of days after that, when an Iranian missile struck his workplace in Tel Aviv. 

On April 5, an Iranian missile that fragmented upon re-entry struck an apartment building in Haifa, causing part of the structure to collapse. After hours of search operations—interrupted by further missile attacks—rescue teams recovered the bodies of Vladimir Gershovitz, 73; his wife, Lena Ostrovsky-Gershovitz, 68; their son, Dima Gershovitz, 42; and his wife, Lucille Jane Gershovitz, 29, from the rubble. The four had not reached a bomb shelter before the impact that led to the collapse.

In addition to civilian deaths, 12 IDF soldiers were killed during fighting with Hezbollah after the military began ground operations in Lebanon aimed at dismantling infrastructure used to carry out attacks on Israel.

Several others were killed in accidents while trying to reach safety spaces during the missile attacks or as a result of traffic accidents caused by falling missile impacts or fragments. Their deaths are counted as casualties of war. 

On Thursday, the Israeli Health Ministry said that 7,451 people have been admitted to hospitals in Israel since the start of Operation Roaring Lion on Feb. 28, with 118 still hospitalized. Of those, two are in critical condition, 13 are listed in serious condition, 25 are in moderate condition, and the remaining 74 are in light condition. That figure contains both civilian and military hospitalizations. 

The ministry did not provide a breakdown of the causes of the injuries or specify how many were civilians or soldiers.

Despite lasting longer than the 2025 12-day war with Iran, fewer Israelis were killed during Operation Roaring Lion, which Israeli authorities attribute to a lower volume of attacks from Iran after Israel significantly degraded its missile capabilities during that earlier conflict and continued to do so, with U.S. assistance, throughout the latest fighting.

Meanwhile, Iranian state media reported that over 3,000 people died as a result of U.S. and Israeli strikes, while also not providing a breakdown of the number of injuries between civilians and combatants.