Iraqi Resistance Forces Launch Aerial Strike on Eilat
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A drone launched by the Iraqi resistance forces struck the occupied Israeli port city of Eilat on Monday morning, causing damages to a building.
“In support of our people in Gaza, and in response to the massacres committed by the usurping entity (Israel) against Palestinian civilians, including children, women, and the elderly, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted this morning, Monday 4/1/2024, a vital target in our occupied territories with appropriate weapons,” the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) coalition announced on Monday.
The Israeli army said a “suspicious aerial target” entered the airspace “from the east” and struck a building “in the Eilat Bay area.” It added that there were no injuries, but that a building was damaged from the impact.
Hebrew media reported that the drone made its way from Iraq, through Jordan, and into the southern occupied city. The explosion reportedly took place meters away from an Israeli warship, Saar 6. The target of the attack was said to be a military base, The Cradle reported.
This was not the first drone attack targeting the occupied city of Eilat. Since October 2023, the Yemeni Armed Forces have claimed numerous drone and missile attacks on the city, known in Arabic as Umm al-Rashrash.
Eilat is the site of one of the Israeli regime’s strategic ports, the Eilat Port, which has suffered significant revenue losses since the start of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza due to Yemen’s Red Sea operations against Israeli shipping.
