{"id":495323,"date":"2026-06-16T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/495323\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:56:10","slug":"israel-took-50000-satellite-photos-of-iran-in-operation-roaring-lio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/495323\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel took 50,000 satellite photos of Iran in Operation Roaring Lio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli satellites photographed Iran a jaw-dropping over 50,000 times during the around 40-day Operation Roaring Lion<\/a>, The Jerusalem Post has learned.<\/p>\n

This statistic would mean that Israeli satellites were taking well over 1,000 photos per day of the Islamic Republic during the war.<\/p>\n

It also dwarfs the around 12,000 satellite<\/a> photos that Israel took of Iran during the June 2025 war, according to the Defense Ministry.<\/p>\n

Even those 12,000 photos captured tens of millions of square kilometers of Iranian territory through both day and night.<\/p>\n

This means that Israel likely captured more than a hundred million square kilometers, if not hundreds of millions, during the recent war.<\/p>\n

\"OfekOfek 19 satellite launched by Israel. (credit: Kobi Richter)50,000 satellite images, 18,000 bombs, 4,000 targets<\/p>\n

On April 9, the IDF<\/a> revealed many of its other final statistics to date from the Iran war, including dropping 18,000 bombs.<\/p>\n

That number over 38 days represents around five times the number of bombs that the IDF dropped on Iran over 12 days during the June 2025 war.<\/p>\n

These bombs were dropped as part of 1,000 waves of aircraft, with those aircraft flying 8,5000 separate sorties.<\/p>\n

During those sorties, there were around 10,800 attacks, which focused on around 4,000 different targets, which collectively had around 6,700 different components to them.<\/p>\n

For example, one target might be an entire base with several different buildings or threat items to strike.<\/p>\n

The pace of the bombing, as massive as it was, mostly dropped on a steady basis starting from mid-March.
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In the early days of the war, both Israel and the US were dropping around 1,000 bombs or striking around 1,000 targets daily.<\/p>\n

On April 6, the US CENTCOM said that it had struck over 13,000 targets within Iran.<\/p>\n

However, the size of Israeli and American targets is not entirely comparable.<\/p>\n

At different times, both Israel and American officials have claimed that they bombed more targets than the other party, while always making sure to lavish praise on the counterpart air force.<\/p>\n

For most of the war, the parties also divided up the country by region, with Israel mostly attacking in western, northern, and central Iran, including Tehran<\/a>, and the US focused more on southern Iran as well as the various waterways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli satellites photographed Iran a jaw-dropping over 50,000 times during the around 40-day Operation Roaring Lion, The Jerusalem…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47994,42,4427,15005,43,157283,9769,40,38,41,39,76279,144052],"class_list":["post-495323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-centcom","tag-headlines","tag-intelligence","tag-israel-iran-war","tag-news","tag-operation-roaring-lion","tag-satellite","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-iran","tag-us-israel-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}