Illustrative image. (Screengrab/the Islamic Resistance in Iraq)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) acknowledged on October 4 that two soldiers were killed and two dozen others were wounded in a drone attack from Iraq a day earlier.
According to an IDF probe, two suicide drones were launched from Iraq in the attack. One of the drones was shot down by Israeli air defenses. However, the other one impacted a military base in the northern part of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
The military said that the two slain soldiers were a signals officer cadet and IT specialist from the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion.
In addition to the slain soldiers, another 24 were wounded in the attack, including two seriously, one moderately and 21 lightly.
The deadly attack was likely carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) which said that it launched suicide drones at three targets in northern Israel late on October 2.
The IRI also announced an attack with a advance suicide drone on a target in southern Israel on October 3, and said that it attack three more targets in the Golan Heights and near the Sea of Galilee with suicide drones on October 4. Hebrew media reported multiple interceptions over these areas.
The IRI, an umbrella group of Iran-backed Iraqi armed factions, began carrying out attacks against Israel as well as against United States forces in Iraq and neighboring Syria last October in response to the Israeli war on Gaza.
In September, the group escalated its attacks against Israel in response to Israel’s ongoing aerial campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The drone attack on the Golan Heights IDF base marked the first known time an attack by the IRI has resulted in Israeli casualties.
Israel has not openly responded to the IRI’s attacks yet. However, 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 the Strip. Iraqi fighters and commanders were killed in some of these strikes.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence
NOW hosted at southfront.press
Previously, SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence was at southfront.org.
The .org domain name had been blocked by the US (NATO) (https://southfront.press/southfront-org-blocked-by-u-s-controlled-global-internet-supervisor/) globally, outlawed and without any explanation
Back before that, from 2013 to 2015, SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence was at southfront.com
excellent but they need to send dozens of drones
soldier in occupied land — 100% legitimate target, good work of resistance. now even distant regions are not safe for occupiers, so their words about 15-20 safe zone near litani river (leontes — greek name before arabs) is just a bluff. there is no safe zone. their future existence depends on good will of iran. leave all occupied lands, let arabs in palestine create their own state to have peace.
try “let arabs everywhere create their own states to have peace”. sykes-picot was an epochal crime against humanity.
the golan is not northern israel it’s occupied syria.