Illustrative image. (Screengrab/the Islamic Resistance in Iraq)
Over the night of November 8 and 9, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), an umbrella group of Iran-backed armed factions, launched four drone attacks against vital and military targets in Israel in support of the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
Three of the targets were located in northern Israel while the fourth was in the south of the country, according to separate statements released by the group.
The attacks were carried out “in response to the massacres committed by the usurping entity [Israel] against civilians, including children, women, and the elderly” in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, the group said, vowing that “operations against enemy strongholds will continue at an increasing pace.”
Videos released by the group showed what appears to be three Iranian-made Shahed-101 suicide drones being launched from Iraq.
Overnight, drone warning sirens sounded more than once in the Western and Upper Galilee as well as in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The Israeli Defense Forces reported the interceptions of multiple suicide drones. However, it said that they came from the direction of Lebanon.
The IRI 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 all-out war on Gaza. The group escalated its attacks against Israel in September in response to Israel’s ongoing aerial campaign and ground operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israel has not responded directly to the IRI’s attacks yet. However, recent reports suggest that the IDF may be planning an attack on Iraq.
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