Israel
Israel Defense Forces
Israel's unified military, and the force present in every arena of this system: the Gaza war since October 2023, the Lebanon fronts of 2023–24 and 2026, and sustained operations in the West Bank.
Coverage · Levant
Context, not targeting. This atlas describes structure and history. It deliberately excludes current locations, live strength, unit movements and anything operationally sensitive — the content model has no fields for them. Branch depth reflects what can be established from public sources, not the size, capability or importance of a force: a thin branch means a state publishes little, and record counts are never a measure of strength.
Force StructureThe full command tree for each side — who sits under whom, with the subordination of every record stated and graded.FormationsEvery formation as a searchable list, when you know the unit you are looking for rather than where it sits.
Current state
What this atlas holds
Records assessed as of 2026-10
How the forces on each side are organised — formations, lineage and subordination, never locations or strength.
- Published records44As of 2026-10Formations index
- Reviewed profiles16As of 2026-10Formations indexFull or partial profiles that have passed source review.
- Formations24As of 2026-10Formations indexRecords typed as a formation or a special unit; services, commands and groupings are counted above.
- Documented equipment edges4As of 2026-10Formations indexTyped equipment associations graded documented — never quantities.
- Newest status date2026-10As of 2026-10Formations indexThe most recent status-as-of date any record in this module carries.
The trees The 12 trees this module publishes across 5 sides, as selectable objects. Each plate opens the structure beneath that record; the count on a record is a count of published records, never a measure of strength.Interrogate Levant in Explore
Israel
IDF Northern Command
The IDF regional command for the Lebanese and Syrian fronts. In this module, the command that fought Hezbollah in 2023–24 and again in 2026, and that holds the area the UN calls the forward defence line.
Israel
Levant commands and formations (Israel Defense Forces)
A navigation grouping of the IDF commands and formations this module reads on the Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon fronts. It is not an IDF echelon and implies no command of its own: the formal parent of each member differs and is stated on its own record.
Israel
Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet)
Israel's internal security service, answering to the Prime Minister's Office: the lead agency for counter-terrorism intelligence in the West Bank and a central intelligence partner to the IDF in Gaza.
Lebanese state
Lebanese Armed Forces
Lebanon's armed forces under a single Army Command, which commands the land forces, the Air Force and the Navy. The force the state has tasked, since August 2025, with confining arms to the state, beginning south of the Litani.
Palestinian Authority
Palestinian Authority Security Forces
The security services of the Palestinian Authority, organised by law since 2005 in three forces — national security, internal security and general intelligence — under the President as commander-in-chief. They operate in the parts of the West Bank the Authority administers and have not operated in Gaza since 2007.
Political-armed organisations
Hezbollah's military organisation
The armed organisation of Hezbollah — banned from military and security activity by the Lebanese cabinet on 2 March 2026, yet a combatant in the war that opened that day. Its existence and its fighting in 2026 are confirmed; its internal form after the 2024 decapitation and a reported Iranian-supervised reorganisation is not.
Political-armed organisations
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
Hamas's armed wing and the principal armed organisation in Gaza — party, through Hamas, to the Board of Peace disarmament document of 30 July 2026, whose implementation is not confirmed. Its pre-war structure is documented and historical; its present structure is unknown.
Political-armed organisations
al-Quds Brigades (Palestinian Islamic Jihad)
The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the second armed organisation in Gaza — considerably weakened by the war, with reservations about the July 2026 disarmament document. Its internal structure is not established by any independent source.
International bodies
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
The UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, organised in Sector West and Sector East under a headquarters at Naqoura with a maritime task force, whose operations cease on 31 December 2026 under resolution 2790 (2025), with withdrawal to follow within one year.
International bodies
Mechanism (2024 cessation of hostilities)
The US-chaired body created by the November 2024 Israel–Lebanon cessation of hostilities (S/2024/870) to monitor, verify and assist enforcement, with Lebanon, Israel, UNIFIL as host and France. Its meetings were suspended from 18 March 2026 (UN); its status since is uncertain.
International bodies
Military Coordination Group for Lebanon (MCG4L)
The trilateral military coordination group created under Article 7 of the 26 June 2026 US–Israel–Lebanon Trilateral Framework, "with U.S. support and participation", to ensure the Framework's implementation. Its composition beyond the three signatories is not published.
How to read this atlasRecord states, subordination grades and lineage — and the dated structural changes this module's records and corrections carry
How to read this atlas
Structure. Each side is a set of trees: state military, interior forces, and browsing groups. A record marked “Grouping · not a command” exists only so related organisations can be found together — its members do not share a command, and each states its real parent institution.
Record states. A full profile has passed source review. A stub is an honest structural placeholder — name, place in the tree, broad role, and a dated status — awaiting research. Records that cannot yet meet even that threshold are held internally and do not appear on the site at all.
Subordination grades. Parent links are graded:confirmed, reported, disputed,historical, or unknown. Where a current parent cannot be verified — as with brigades amid Ukraine's rolling corps reform — the record says unknown rather than inventing precision.
Lineage, not amnesia. Reorganised, merged or disbanded organisations keep their records, marked with dated predecessor and successor links — Wagner's absorption after 2023 and the Donetsk and Luhansk corps are carried this way, never as if unchanged.
Every record carries a status as of date for its claims and a separate reviewed date for editorial checks — a review never silently refreshes a status date.
Evidence and grading
- Subordination
- Every parent link is graded by the record itself: confirmed, reported, disputed, historical or unknown. Where a current parent cannot be verified the record says unknown rather than inventing precision.
- Record state
- A full profile has passed source review; a partial profile is under review; a stub is a structural placeholder — name, place in the tree, broad role and a dated status — awaiting research. Records below that threshold are not published at all.
- Confidence
- How well established Vigil considers this assessment to be. It is not a measure of how severe the situation is.