Iraqi MP:

Washington Blames Israel for Drone Attacks against Hashd Al-Shaabi

A senior Iraqi legislator revealed that the US has informed the country's government that Israeli drones have participated in a number of offensives against the positions of Hashd al-Shaabi (popular forces).

News ID: 447005

Date: 13 September 2019 - 10:28

RNA - Abdolkhaliq al-Azawi, a member of the Iraqi parliament's Security and Defense Committee, was quoted by the Arabic-language al-Nahrain news website as saying that the Iraqi government's fact-finding committee has ended its investigations into the cause of the explosions in Hashd al-Shaabi positions and arms caches.

"It came to be known that 12 attacks were launched, using drones," he added.

According to al-Azawi, the US which is responsible to protect Iraq's airspace has informed the Iraqi government that the attacks have been launched by the Israeli drones.

Late in August, Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi forces in a statement announced that Israeli drones backed by the US aircraft pounded their positions near the border with Syria.

The Hashd al-Shaabi in a statement reported that two Israeli drones struck its military positions in Akashat-Alqaem Road in al-Anbar province 15 kilometers from the border with Syria.

According to Fars News Agancy, the statement noted that the attack had taken place with the aerial support of the US and monitoring of a huge surveillance balloon near the site of the attack, and said that the attack took place with the start of the Phase 4 of Eradeh al-Nasr (the Will of Victory) military operation jointly conducted by the Iraqi Army, Police Force and Hashd al-Shaabi against the ISIL remnants in the Western part of the country.

It noted that a Hashd al-Sha’abi member was killed and another was wounded in the Israeli drone attacks.

Meantime, Hashd al-Shaabi commander Hadi al-Jazayeri told al-Ma'aloumeh news website that the continued drone attacks on Hashd al-Shaabi’s military positions would be given a harsh response by Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces as already warned by his deputy Abu al-Mahdi al-Mohandes.

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