Iranian media networks are widely circulating claims that the Israeli Ministry of Health has reported 3,530 injured Zionists since the outbreak of the war, alongside allegations of heavy censorship by Israeli media.
Following the major military escalation that began on March 16—which included strikes on Iranian territory and subsequent Iranian cluster bomb attacks on Tel Aviv—Iranian media networks are extensively circulating high casualty figures purportedly released by Israeli authorities.
According to the regional conflict channel اخبار جنگ | ایران | افغانستان, the Zionist Ministry of Health has announced that 3,530 Zionists have been wounded since the war against Iran began. The channel specifies that 70 of these individuals were hospitalized within the past 24 hours. Furthermore, the channel asserts that Zionist media outlets are heavily censoring the true extent of the injuries and casualties.
These figures are being amplified across various Iranian channels, which uniformly utilize standard state-aligned terminology, referring to Israelis as Zionists and the government as the Zionist regime. The pro-government channel حامیان پزشکیان (Supporters of Pezeshkian) echoed the exact same figures, directly attributing the report of 3,530 hospitalizations to the Ministry of Health of the Zionist regime.
The Supporters of Pezeshkian channel also highlighted that these casualty statistics have been distributed by other prominent Farsi-language outlets, including Akharin Khabar and Fars International and Foreign Policy. This indicates a concentrated narrative focus within Iranian media regarding the physical toll of the ongoing war.
The Farsi channels universally employ the terms Zionist and Zionist regime to describe Israel and its citizens, which has been preserved in the text without softening or scare quotes, per translation fidelity instructions. The source text does not provide external links to the alleged Israeli Ministry of Health announcement.