During the night between Friday and Saturday, a military base in central Iraq was bombed, inside which there were troops of thearmy and former pro-Iranian paramilitaries of Hachd al-Chaabi, integrated into the regular forces. It is not yet known who opened fire or whether it was a drone attack. The first toll is two dead and eight injured.
“There are explosions in the warehouses that house the equipment following the bombings”, explain the same sources: “A fire is devastating some sectors and the search for the wounded continues. The bombing hit equipment, weapons, vehicles”.
Israel denies its involvement. An Israeli official declared this to CNN, as reported by the newspaper The Times of Israel, after an Iraqi coalition of pro-Iranian militias said that one of its military bases had been targeted by an air attack. Also denied by the United States: in a post the US Central Command states that “the United States did not conduct air raids in Iraq today”, denying what some intelligence sources said regarding American responsibilities: “This information is false” .
Meanwhile, the situation in the Middle East is becoming increasingly heated. With a video published on social media, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced that it had launched some drones against “a vital target” in Eliat, in southern Israel, on the border between Egypt and Jordan: “The attack is the response to the violation of sovereignty of Iraq by the Zionist enemy and its attack against the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF)”.
Some satellite images of the area of the attack in Iran, carried out last night by Israel, show “damage to a radar system near Isfahan airport”.
