Iraqi militia claims responsibility for aerial attack on Israel鈥檚 Eilat port city

An Israeli navy missile boat patrols in the Red Sea off the coast of Israel's southern port city of Eliat on December 26, 2023. (File/AFP)
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  • Israel鈥檚 statement said a flying object launched from east of Israel had struck a building in Eilat

JERUSALEM: Israel鈥檚 Red Sea port city of Eilat came under an aerial attack on Monday that caused no casualties, the military said, and an Iranian-backed armed group in Iraq issued a claim of responsibility.
The military鈥檚 statement said a flying object launched from east of Israel had struck a building in Eilat. It did not elaborate on the object or the provenance. Sirens went off in the city but there was no interception by air defenses, it said.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a militia, said in a statement that it had attacked a 鈥渧ital objective鈥� in Israel 鈥渦sing appropriate weapons.鈥� It did not offer further details.
Eilat has come under repeated missile and drone attack from the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen during Israel鈥檚 almost six-month-old war against Hamas in Gaza. In November, Israel said a group in Syria had launched a drone that hit the port city.

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