Drone launched by pro-Iranian militia hits eastern Israel

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September 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Israeli army announced on Tuesday that it had detected a drone crossing from the east of the country and that it had crashed in the area. There were no casualties as a result of the incident, the launch of which was claimed by the pro-Iranian Shiite militia coalition, the Islamic Resistance of Iraq.

“Following alerts in the Arava area, a drone was detected crossing from the east. A crash was detected in the area. There are no casualties,” reads a brief statement posted by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on its website. According to some Israeli media, the drone hit an airbase facility.

For its part, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which has launched several drones against Israel over the past week, has confirmed a “bombing of a target near the Jordan Valley” as a “continuation” of its “approach of resistance to the occupation, in support of the people of Palestine and in response to the massacres committed by the occupation against civilians,” according to the Iraqi television channel Al Sumaria.

Hostilities in the region erupted after the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and other Palestinian factions launched a series of attacks against Israel on October 7, leaving nearly 1,200 people dead and more than 240 hostages. The Israeli army then launched a bloody military campaign against Gaza that has so far left more than 41,400 dead, in addition to more than 700 Palestinians killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The October 7 attacks, dubbed the “Al-Aqsa Flood” by Hamas and its allies, also led to the opening of a front on the border between Israel and Lebanon, with constant fighting for more than eleven months. In addition, Houthi rebels in Yemen and pro-Iranian militias in Iraq have launched missiles and drones against Israel – which has carried out bombings against territory in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen – in response to its offensive against Gaza.