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On January 12, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) announced that it had attacked two “vital targets” in Israel in response to recent “massacres” against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
One of the targets is located close to the Jordan River Park in the northern region, while the other is near the southernmost city of Eilat, the group, which is made up of several Iranian-backed armed factions in Iraq, said in two separate statements.
The group said that the targets were attacked with “suitable weapons,” without elaborating. The group is known to be armed with suicide drones as well as ballistic and cruise missiles.
“The Islamic Resistance affirms that it will continue to attack the strongholds of the enemy and promises you with more,” the IRI concluded its statements.
The Israeli Defense Forces didn’t announce any attack on northern or southern Israel during the day. There were also no reports of blasts or interceptions in Hebrew media.
These were the IRI’s eighth and ninth attacks against Israel since the war first broke out in Gaza. Previous attacks targeted Eilat, military sites in the eastern region, the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as well as a gas rig off Israel’s shores. During the same period, the group launched more than a hundred attacks against United States forces in Iraq and Syria in response to Washington’ support for the war on the Strip.
The U.S. responded by targeting some of the IRI’s factions in both Iraq and Syria. Israel didn’t announce any retaliatory attacks. However, it was unofficially blamed for several recent strikes which targeted the Iraqi-Syrian border and were not claimed by the U.S. military.
