The United Nations’ International Maritime Organization published the maritime war’s accounting. At least 6,000 sailors remain stranded aboard hundreds of ships in the Persian Gulf six months into the conflict. Nineteen seafarers have been killed since it began on February 28. At least seventy attacks on international shipping have been recorded in the Gulf across the same period. These are the people this archive has logged one incident at a time — the Tihamah crew on Day 166, the Minoan Pioneer casualty on Day 164, the sailor killed in the Caspian on Day 150 — now counted together. None of them are party to the dispute over who controls the water they work in.

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The IRGC Navy asserted on Saturday that it holds full control of the Strait of Hormuz, telling Tasnim that American statements describing the waterway as open are "an obvious lie" intended to manage oil prices and cover up US failures, and that control by Iranian forces over the strait is completely decisive. US Central Command, which has enforced the blockade of Iranian ports since April 13, told reporters this week that Iran does not control the strait, describing it as an international waterway that commercial vessels continue to transit under American protection. Both statements are about the same stretch of water on the same day. The IMO figures above are the only account of it that neither government issued.

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Reporting on the Iran-Oman understanding logged on Day 182 added a term not in the original joint statement: alongside the temporary shipping corridor, the arrangement is said to include sharing revenue from maritime services. That returns the question this tracker recorded on Day 161, when Iran sought 5 to 7 percent of cargo value and Oman floated around 3 percent — and it is the specific thing Washington has repeatedly ruled out, having insisted the routes carry no tolls or charges and that no party controls the lanes. Iran separately pledged to stand firm against what it called "unjust" US sanctions.

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Regional tensions between Turkey and Israel continued to build around the Syrian military base struck on Day 172 — the facility Israel said was intended for a Turkish force deployment, and which Ankara has denied posed any threat. The dispute now sits between two American partners, with Washington having publicly criticised the strikes and Israel having given no advance notice of them.

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Masked Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian civilians and an NBC News team in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces raided and shuttered the UNRWA vocational training centre at Qalandiya, described in reporting as a lifeline for Palestinian refugees — completing the seizure this archive first logged on Day 179. At Qusra, settlers surrounded a Palestinian home and the Israeli army arrested six Palestinians following settler violence; it is the fifth consecutive day the village has appeared in this ledger.

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Israeli attacks across Gaza killed two people and struck a hospital supply warehouse. Ledger note: this tracker ingested the incident twice across windows, at four casualties and at two; the reported toll is two, counted once.

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Tracker status holds at WAR RESUMED. Day 183 is the day the war’s maritime cost stopped being anecdotal. Nineteen merchant sailors are dead and six thousand are stuck aboard ships in a gulf that two governments each insist they control, while the corridor deal meant to release them has acquired a revenue-sharing clause the third party has already refused. US strikes on Iran remain paused since August 1, twenty-nine days. That pause is the longest quiet of the war and the only element of the picture that has held.