Iraq resistance group claims drone attack on Israel

Clouds of smoke are billowing from Israel’s northern port city of Haifa on the Mediterranean Coast in the area of the Israel-Lebanon border on December 16, 2023 [Mati Milstein/NurPhoto via Getty Images]

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq yesterday claimed responsibility for a drone attack on a “vital site” in northern Israel’s port city of Haifa a day earlier.

The attack was executed on Tuesday evening “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 group said in a statement, pledging to continue targeting “the enemy’s strongholds”.

Israel has not commented on the group’s claim.

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