News Desk - The Cradle
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has recently widened its range of attacks by striking targets inside Israel
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“The Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted, at dawn Wednesday, a technical spy center affiliated with the Zionist entity northeast of Erbil, with appropriate weapons,” the statement read.
Last year, a Kurdish official told The Cradle that Erbil is a hub for western and Israeli intelligence.
The Iraqi resistance announced in an earlier statement that it targeted the Eilad settlement in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The attack was carried out with “appropriate weapons” and struck a “vital target” in the settlement, according to the statement.
Hebrew media said a suicide drone struck a building located in the southern Golan Heights.
According to a Sputnik correspondent, two US bases in Syria were also struck on 27 December.
In late October, Iraqi resistance factions banded together under a single coalition and began near daily attacks on US bases in both Iraq and Syria. The attacks come in rejection of US support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, and also aim to hasten a withdrawal of US troops in Iraq.
According to the Pentagon, the US has been attacked 106 times since the start of the Gaza-Israel war in October, 50 times in Iraq and 56 times in Syria. Dozens of US soldiers have been injured in the attacks.
Three US servicemen were wounded in an attack on the Erbil air base on Monday, 25 December. Washington responded with violent airstrikes south of the Iraqi capital on 26 December, killing an Iraqi serviceman and wounding over a dozen, including civilians.
The US has launched several strikes against Iraq recently in response to ongoing attacks against its forces.
The Iraqi resistance has recently widened its range of targets. The Islamic Resistance announced on Friday, 22 December that it hit the southern Israeli port city of Eilat with “appropriate weapons.” Hebrew media said the attack was intercepted by Jordan.
That same day, the resistance issued a statement saying that, a few days earlier, it had hit “a vital target in the Mediterranean Sea.”
A source close to the Iraqi resistance told Al-Jazeera that the target was the Israeli Karish gas rig situated off the Mediterranean coast. During a heated maritime dispute between Beirut and Tel Aviv last year, Lebanon’s Hezbollah made several threats to strike the Karish gas rig.
Israeli army radio confirmed that a drone “may have made its way to the Karish platform” before being intercepted.
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