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.
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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.
sazonov-sykes-picot actually. quite fair agreement on my taste, if it was implemented. creation of palestine state is not the best solution, would be better to join it and lebanon to egypt or syria as it was before. small states have no resources to be sovereign apart few exceptions. de-jure independent countries easily fall under foreign control.
there is no accounting for people’s taste. if you believe that the british, french and russian empires should be deciding the political fates of non-british, french and russian people, good for you. the entire arabian peninsula should have been a single state, with northern borders on some kind of kurdish sovereign entity.
the russians never went about the planet murdering natives stealing their lands, enslaving tens of millions of their people, selling them like cattle, or forcing them to grow opium crops which they then bombed the chinese, being the biggest market on earth, into allowing them to become the world’s biggest slave owning drug peddling mass murdering thieving nation on tbe earth. guess who. .
russia stayed in its own neighbourhood. it didnt then nor now, need “living room” for its people to overpopulate
omg englands lord balfour declaration made to please the king created israel by the king of israel allowing the jews a 20 year lease on his property he’s the landlord. and several of the powerful the arabs states agreed. the jews didn’t want to go there they got used to clear the place, build it up develop it turn it into lucrative business proposition typical users
imo
you’d know being from the greatest empire the world has ever seen the empire the sun never set on all created for “peace”of course and the empire whose manipulations are still the root cause of todays conflicts right now this second imo.
*15-20 km safe zone.
grow up changing riders isn’t going to change horses
the golan is not northern israel it’s occupied syria.
must be a war going on..!
go and tell that to king charles go and tell him. israel isn’t his kingdom. hahhaha fool.
the zionists were behind the lies leading to the destruction of iraq. they richly deserve everything that’s coming to them. this is illegally occupied syria. no shlomo has any right to be there.
you’ll get what’s coming to you.
the tiny welfare funded, banana republic israel keeps getting bitch slapped by the axis of resistance & theres nothing they or the treasonous, zionist-enslaved israel-first aipac-puppets in the government & in the military can do to stop it. to add insult to injury iran is exporting like 4million barrels of oil, iran has also secured release of 6billion us dollars frozen by the usa in qatar & irans highly enriched uranium stockpile grows daily. sanctions failed utterly
time to put a few nuclear warheads on those missiles.
if they are getting hit at such long ranges as the houthi and iraqi strike them at, imagine if the surrounding arab nations actually got up off their as and did something, but no one wants to get nuked and most arab countries have been quite treacherous.
they’ve allowed themselves to remain divided the king of jordan, the other royal houses throughout the middle east aren’t giving up their kingdoms.