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A drone launched by Hezbollah flies over the Israeli border on Sept. 15, 2024
(JNS) — Israeli air defense systems early Wednesday morning intercepted three drones fired at the Jewish state “from the east,” a phrase the military uses to refer to Iraq.
One unmanned aerial vehicle was downed over Syria before crossing into the Israeli part of the Golan Heights, with the others destroyed over sovereign Israeli waters in the Red Sea, close to Eilat.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iranian-backed amalgamation of terror groups, claimed to have targeted “vital” infrastructure in the Eilat attack.
Earlier this month, two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and two dozen others were wounded when a drone launched from Iraq struck a military base in the Golan Heights.
On Sept. 25, two Israelis were lightly wounded in a suicide drone attack on Eilat. The IDF said that at least two explosive-laden drones had been launched at the Jewish state “from the east.”
