A fire in Jordan near the border with Israel after a drone crash on April 2. Via X.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on April 3 that a suspected drone had entered Israeli airspace in the Arava region right to north of Eilat from the eastern direction.
The “suspicious aerial target” set off sirens at a popular roadside store in the region. In a statement, the IDF said that it fired an interceptor missile at the target, although it is not clear if it was shot down. The incident is under further investigation, it added.
Just a day earlier, on April 2, a suicide drone struck an open area in Jordanian territory close to the Ramon Airport in southern Israel.
Before that on April 1, a drone launched from Iraq struck a hangar at the Israeli Navy’s base in Eilat. The blast narrowly missed a Sa’ar 6-class corvette that was docked nearby. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), an umbrella group of Iranian-backed armed factions, claimed responsibility for the attack.
The IRI, which has been launching attacks against Israel in response to the war on Gaza, has not yet claimed responsibility for the April 2 and 3 attacks. Still, the style of the attacks suggests that the group or other Iranian-backed forces were responsible.
The last two attacks on southern Israel came following the April 1 Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus, which claimed the lives of 13 people, including a senior Quds Force commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, and seven other officers of the guards. The bombing might have been a response to the attack that targeted Eilat earlier on the same day.
Iran vowed that its response to the bombing will be harsh. While the IRGC or its allies were likely behind the last two drone attacks on Israel, these attacks were not for sure the Iranian response.
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