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March 12 (Reuters) - More than a thousand people have been killed across the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, with Gulf states that host U.S. military bases and personnel as well as Lebanon quickly drawn into the conflict.
Here are the death tolls as reported as of Thursday, approaching two weeks into the conflict. Reuters has not independently verified the data.
* IRAN - The latest death toll reported by state media onMonday was at least 1,270 people. But Iran's ambassador to theU.N. said on March 6 that at least 1,332 people had been killedsince the war began. There has been no clarification of thediscrepancy. It was not clear if those figures include at least 104people that the Iranian military said were killed in a U.S.attack on an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka's coast on March 4. * LEBANON - At least 687 people have been killed in Israelistrikes, according to Lebanese authorities. The World HealthOrganization said at least 98 of those killed were children. * IRAQ - At least 30 people have been killed, according toIraqi health authorities. Most of those were members of theShi'ite Popular Mobilisation Forces. * ISRAEL - Twelve people have been killed, including ninepeople in an Iranian missile strike on Beit Shemesh nearJerusalem on March 1, according to Israel's ambulance serviceMagen David Adom. The military said two soldiers were killed insouthern Lebanon, the first fatalities among its troops sincehostilities with Hezbollah resumed last week. * UNITED STATES - Seven service members have been killed inaction during operations against Iran, the U.S. military said. * SYRIA - Four people were killed when an Iranian missilestruck a building in the southern Syrian city of Sweida onFebruary 28, state news agency SANA said. * UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Six people have been killed inIranian attacks, according to the UAE's defence ministry. * SAUDI ARABIA - Two people were killed when a projectilefell on a residential location in Al-Kharj city, southeast ofthe capital Riyadh. * BAHRAIN - Two people were killed in two separate Iranianattacks, with the most recent hitting a residential building inthe capital Manama, according to the interior ministry. * KUWAIT - Kuwaiti authorities have reported six deathsincluding two people killed in Iranian attacks, two interiorministry officers and two army soldiers. * OMAN - One person was killed after a projectile hit theMarshall Islands–flagged product tanker MKD VYOM off the coastof Muscat, its manager said.(Compiled by Nayera Abdallah, Jonathan Allen, Jana Choukeir, Menna Alaa El Din, Maayan Lubell, Pesha Magid
and Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Cynthia Osterman, Aidan Lewis and Christian Schmollinger)
