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.
16 reviewed profiles of 44 records
2 full, 14 under review. 28 further records are structural stubs. Confidence, subordination and sources are inside each record.
Israel · Command
The IDF regional command for the Gaza front, the Negev and the Egyptian border, and the command under which the Gaza war of 2023–25 was fought.
Joint · under Levant commands and formations (Israel Defense Forces)
Lebanese state · State military
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.
Joint
Israel · State military
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.
Joint
Israel · Branch
Israel's air arm and the service that carried the air campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon, and the air-defence formation that intercepts what is fired from both.
Air · under Israel Defense Forces
Israel · Command
The air force's air and missile defence formation, which intercepts the rockets, drones and missiles fired from Gaza and Lebanon.
Air · under Israeli Air Force
Israel · Branch
Israel's naval service. In this module its role is the maritime closure of the Gaza Strip and the protection of Israel's coast, ports and offshore gas.
Naval · under Israel Defense Forces
Israel · Flotilla
The navy's submarine flotilla, shown here because the navy's tree is reused whole. No Levant-specific role is recorded for it.
Naval · under Israeli Navy
Israel · Branch
The IDF's intelligence directorate, whose failure before 7 October 2023 the IDF's own investigations examined, and whose targeting underpinned the campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon.
Joint · under Israel Defense Forces
Israel · 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.
Land · under Israeli military posture toward Syria
Israel · Division
The Golan Heights territorial division, reached here through the Northern Command. Its front is Syria's and is covered in the Syria module; no Levant role is recorded for it.
Land · under IDF Northern Command
Israel · Grouping · not a command
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.
Joint
Palestinian Authority · Interior 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.
Interior / security
Political-armed organisations · Armed movement
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.
Volunteer / irregular
Political-armed organisations · Armed movement
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.
Volunteer / irregular
Political-armed organisations · Armed movement
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.
Volunteer / irregular
International bodies · Multinational body
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.
Joint
Israel · Division
The Southern Command's territorial division for the Gaza border: the formation holding the border on 7 October 2023, and one of the divisions the IDF named as deployed in Gaza in February 2025.
Land · under IDF Southern Command
Israel · Command
The IDF regional command for the West Bank ("Judea and Samaria" in IDF usage) and the Jordan border, which has conducted Operation Iron Wall in the northern West Bank since 21 January 2025.
Land · under Levant commands and formations (Israel Defense Forces)
Israel · Division
The Central Command's territorial division for the West Bank, and the formation of record for IDF operations there, including Operation Iron Wall from January 2025.
Land · under IDF Central Command
Israel · Command
The IDF command for civil protection inside Israel (public alerts, shelter guidance and rescue under rocket and missile fire), established in February 1992 after the Gulf War.
Joint · under Levant commands and formations (Israel Defense Forces)
Israel · Division
The Northern Command's territorial division for the Lebanese border, filed here under the module's navigation root; it took part in the south-Lebanon ground operations of 2024 and of March 2026.
Land · under Levant commands and formations (Israel Defense Forces)
Israel · Division
A reserve division under the Northern Command, announced by the IDF in October 2024 as joining the ground operation in south Lebanon and reported there again in 2026; filed here under the module's navigation root.
Land · under Levant commands and formations (Israel Defense Forces)
Israel · Division
A regular armoured manoeuvre division: in Gaza in 2023–24, committed to the south-Lebanon ground operation in October 2024, and reported in the expanded Lebanon operation from March 2026.
Land · under Levant commands and formations (Israel Defense Forces)
Israel · Division
The IDF's paratroop and commando manoeuvre division: in Khan Younis in 2024, among the forces that opened the south-Lebanon ground operation at the turn of September and October 2024, and deployed to south Lebanon again in 2026.
Land · under Levant commands and formations (Israel Defense Forces)
Israel · Division
A regular armoured manoeuvre division: in Gaza from 2023 (Rafah in 2024, then the north of the Strip until it handed over to the 252nd in February 2025 after some 500 days of combat), and reported in south Lebanon in 2026.
Land · under Levant commands and formations (Israel Defense Forces)
Israel · Interior forces
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.
Interior / security
Lebanese state · Branch
The small air arm of the Lebanese Armed Forces, subordinate to the Army Command rather than a separate service.
Air · under Lebanese Armed Forces
Lebanese state · Branch
The coastal navy of the Lebanese Armed Forces, subordinate to the Army Command, and the partner the UNIFIL Maritime Task Force exists to support.
Naval · under Lebanese Armed Forces
Lebanese state · Command
The Lebanese Army's sector command for the area south of the Litani: it commands the army's deployment there and executed the first phase of the army's plan to confine arms to the state. Its brigades are not separate records.
Land · under Lebanese Armed Forces
Palestinian Authority · Interior forces
The largest of the Palestinian Authority's three legal forces — a gendarmerie-like force, the closest the Authority has to an army, which under Law No. 8 of 2005 includes the Palestine National Liberation Army and answers to the President.
Interior / security · under Palestinian Authority Security Forces
Palestinian Authority · Interior forces
The Palestinian Authority's intelligence service — one of the three forces under Law No. 8 of 2005, and by its own law (No. 17 of 2005) a regular security agency subordinate to the President.
Interior / security · under Palestinian Authority Security Forces
Palestinian Authority · Interior forces
The Palestinian Authority's domestic security and counter-terrorism service, part of the Internal Security Forces administered through the Interior Ministry.
Interior / security · under Palestinian Authority Security Forces
Palestinian Authority · Interior forces
The force that protects the Palestinian Authority's President and institutions, answering to the President; its members were reported among the forces in the Jenin camp operation of December 2024.
Interior / security · under Palestinian Authority Security Forces
Palestinian Authority · Interior forces
The Palestinian Authority's civil police, part of the Internal Security Forces administered through the Interior Ministry, policing the Authority-administered areas of the West Bank.
Interior / security · under Palestinian Authority Security Forces
Political-armed organisations · Command
Described by the US Rewards for Justice programme as Hezbollah's highest military body. Its existence before 2024 is well sourced; many of its known members were killed in 2024, and whether it still functions as a council after the reported decentralisation is unknown.
Volunteer / irregular · under Hezbollah's military organisation
Political-armed organisations · Special unit
Hezbollah's elite offensive force. Its commanders were killed in September 2024; Israeli research and military sources report efforts to rebuild it since, which Vigil records as their assessment. Its present form and size are not established.
Special operations · under Hezbollah's military organisation
Political-armed organisations · Command
The rocket and missile component of Hezbollah's military organisation — a function its 2024 and 2026 fire confirms, under a command whose pre-2024 head was killed in September 2024 and whose present form is not established. No inventory is carried.
Volunteer / irregular · under Hezbollah's military organisation
Political-armed organisations · Command
The unmanned-aircraft component of Hezbollah's military organisation — reconnaissance and one-way attack drones, a function its 2024 and 2026 use confirms. Israeli sources call it Unit 127; that designation and the unit's present form are not independently established.
Unmanned · under Hezbollah's military organisation
Political-armed organisations · Directorate
The logistics body reported to have run the transfer of weapons and money from Iran to Hezbollah, historically through Syria. That overland route closed with the fall of the Assad government in December 2024; what the unit does now, and whether it survives in its old form, is unknown.
Volunteer / irregular · under Hezbollah's military organisation
Political-armed organisations · Command
The territorial commands into which Hezbollah's military organisation was reported to divide southern Lebanon before 2024 — sources name the Nasr, Aziz and Badr units and disagree on their sectors. Historical record: not presented as current structure, which reporting since 2024 describes as decentralised.
Volunteer / irregular · under Hezbollah's military organisation
Political-armed organisations · Command
The five territorial brigades — North Gaza, Gaza City, Central, Khan Younis and Rafah — into which the Qassam Brigades were organised before October 2023, with about two dozen battalions below them. Historical record: the IDF claims most were dismantled, regeneration is reported, and the present form is unknown.
Volunteer / irregular · under Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
International bodies · Task force
UNIFIL's naval component since 15 October 2006, the first UN naval task force, which supports the Lebanese Navy and helps prevent unauthorised arms entering Lebanon by sea; it ends with the force under resolution 2790 (2025).
Naval · under United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
International bodies · Multinational body
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.
Joint
International bodies · Multinational body
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.
Joint
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