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The Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), an umbrella group of Iran-backed armed factions, announced on August 20 that it had attacked a “vital target” in the southernmost Israeli city of Eilat with drones.
The attack was carried out “in response to the massacres committed by the usurping entity [Israel] against civilians, including children, women, and the elderly” in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip, the group said in a statement, vowing that “operations against enemy strongholds will continue at an increasing pace.”
This was the second attack against Israel to be announced by the IRI in less than a week. On August 18, the group said that it attacked a “military target” in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights with drones in support of Gaza. The group noted at the time that the attack took place the previous week.
Hebrew media didn’t report any warnings or interceptions in Israel due to attacks from Iraq in the last few weeks. Nevertheless, this does not mean that the attacks failed as the Israeli military has the power to censor all news related to security incidents in the country.
The IRI began launching attacks against Israel as well as against United States forces in Iraq and neighboring Syria in response to Israel’s bloody war on Gaza and Washington’s unwavering support for it.
The group suspended attacks against U.S. forces last February after the death of three American troops in a drone strike on a base in Jordan, reportedly upon a request from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Nevertheless, it escalated attacks against Israel starting from March.
The period between late July and early August saw a brief halt in IRI attacks against Israel, likely as a result of U.S. escalation against Iran-backed armed factions in Iraq.
Israel has not openly responded to the IRI’s attacks yet. Nevertheless, it was blamed for several strikes that targeted Iran-backed armed factions along the Syrian-Iraqi border and near the Syrian capital, Damascus, after the start of the war in Gaza. Iraqi fighters were killed in some of these strikes.
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the thieving amerikunts need to be targeted on a baily basis until they f*** off out of iraq.
iri is fully entitled to rain missiles on the jeews and the americans until they go home or buries at 6 feet pushing up daysies!
stabbing the zionazi beast from all sides. karma is wonderful. long live palestine and the antidote to the $atanic anglozionazi disease.