Iranian-backed militia in Iraq takes responsibility for drone attack on Israel

Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq on Thursday claimed responsibility for the drone that became shot down by the Israeli Air Force, Israeli local media reported.

The group said it launched the drone at an unspecified target in southern Israel. The drone became shot down over the Egypt-Israel border area, the the Times of Israel reported.

The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) did now no longer specify where the drone became launched from, or where it became intercepted. Meanwhile, the Israeli militia said that virtually 200 rockets have been launched at northern Israel nowadays.

IDF Chief of Personnel Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said the militia will now no longer allow Hezbollah to re-establish itself in southern Lebanon.

“As of late I met the commanders and troops of the 98th Division and thirty sixth Division, who are fighting in Lebanon, for an exceedingly important goal: creating security contained in the north and returning the residents to their homes after more than a year of being evacuated,” Halevi says in a video statement from northern Israel as reported contained in the Times of Israel.

Also, Israel’s militia said its air force struck Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut nowadays. “The Intelligence Corps is Hezbollah’s primary intelligence body and is answerable for aggregating intelligence about the IDF and the State of Israel,” the Israel Defence Forces said in an announcement as cited by CNN.

In a report, Al Jazeera said, Israeli soldiers were targeted by the Lebanese armed group with a rocket salvo contained in the Kafr Giladi settlement in northern Israel, Hezbollah also claimed to have struck the militia web page and the settlement in Metula with a hundred Katyusha rockets and 6 Falaq rockets. The group’s fighters also hit the city of Safed with a salvo of rockets, the group’s statement said as cited by Al Jazeera.