After an Iraqi armed organization with ties to Hamas militants claimed responsibility for an attack in the area, a drone fell close to a village in the Golan Heights, which Israel has seized. This information was released by the Israeli army on Thursday.
According to Israeli media, a drone that was likely carrying explosives that had been launched from Syria was shot down late on Wednesday night south of the Eliad settlement. No casualties were recorded, although there was some material damage.
The drone fell close to Eliad, the Israeli army said to AFP, but they did not provide any other information.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose formation of pro-Iran armed groups, said in a statement it had hit a “vital target” south of Eliad with “appropriate weaponry”.
Israel has repeatedly vowed to keep up its campaign to destroy Hamas in retaliation for its bloody October 7 attack, which left about 1,140 people dead, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
According to the most recent death toll from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, at least 21,110 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s shelling and ground invasion, the majority of them were women and children.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has taken credit for multiple strikes against US and foreign coalition forces in Iraq and Syria since the start of the war in Gaza.
Since October 17, Washington has recorded 103 strikes against its forces in Syria and Iraq, a US military officer said.
Most of those attacks have been claimed by factions of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq that oppose US support for Israel in its war against Hamas.
But the group has so far claimed few direct attacks against Israeli interests.
Israel conquered part of the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war before annexing the territory in 1981.
The annexation is not recognised by the United Nations.
