1 Institute for the Study of War and AEI’s Critical Threats Project 2023
Iran Update, November 10, 2023
Ashka Jhaveri, Johanna Moore, Annika Ganzeveld, Amin Soltani, Kathryn Tyson, and Peter Mills
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The Iran Update provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities abroad that undermine regional stability
and threaten US forces and interests. It also covers events and trends that affect the stability and decision-making of the
Iranian regime. The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of
War (ISW) provides these updates regularly based on regional events. For more on developments in Iran and the region,
see our interactive map of Iran and the Middle East.
Note: CTP and ISW have refocused the update to cover the Israel-Hamas war. The new sections address developments in
the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria, as well as noteworthy activity from Iran’s Axis of Resistance. We do
not report in detail on war crimes because these activities are well-covered in Western media and do not directly affect
the military operations we are assessing and forecasting. We utterly condemn violations of the laws of armed conflict and
the Geneva Conventions and crimes against humanity even though we do not describe them in these reports.
Click here to see CTP and ISW’s interactive map of Israeli ground operations. This map is updated daily alongside the
static maps present in this report.
Key Takeaways:
1. Israeli forces advanced to the al Shifa Hospital, where Israel says Hamas maintains a critical command
center. Local sources reported heavy armed clashes in the vicinity of the hospital along the Gaza Strip coast.
Israeli forces and tanks also advanced inland in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood west of Jabaliya.
2. Palestinian militants claimed seven indirect fire attacks into Israel. Palestinian fighters also clashed with
Israeli forces a dozen times, primarily in Hebron and Jenin, in the West Bank.
3. Lebanese Hezbollah (LH) and other Iranian-backed fighters conducted nine cross-border attacks into
northern Israel.
4. The IDF reported that unidentified Iranian-backed militants based in Syria were responsible for the
November 9 drone attack that hit the Tze’elim Elementary School in Eilat.
5. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq – an umbrella term for Iranian-backed Iraqi militias – claimed one attack
targeting US forces stationed at al Tanf Garrison, Syria.
