Pro-Iranian militant group launched drone attacks on Israeli targets

23/9/2024 6:08

        The pro-Iranian Islamic Resistance
        in Iraq militant group said on Sunday it had launched a drone
        attack on a target in the Israeli-occupied Jordan Valley.
        
        After Hamas militants launched their attack on Israel on
        Oct. 7 last year triggering the war in Gaza, Iraqi Shi'ite armed
        factions, like other pro-Iranian groups, pledged to carry out
        attacks in solidarity with the Palestinians.
        
        Islamic Resistance in Iraq vowed to escalate its attacks.
        
        In a statement, the Israeli military said interceptors were
        launched towards a UAV (drone) that was launched from Iraq and
        was identified crossing from Syria into Israeli territory. No
        injuries were reported.
        
        The pro-Iranian militant group said its drones hit a
        location in the Jordan Valley in the "occupied Palestinian
        territories" but did not elaborate.
        
        Tensions in the Middle East have shot up since
        thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Lebanon's
        Hezbollah members exploded in an attack widely blamed on Israel.
        Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged some of the heaviest
        cross-border fire in a conflict running in parallel to the
        almost year-long Gaza war.