Smoke poured out of the seventh floor of the building in Gaza City. What is the fault of an innocent five-year-old girl to be killed in this way?” family member Mohammad Abu Jabal told Al Jazeera. She lost her daughter and her husband in a blink of an eye and left behind three children. The five-year-old girl, Alaa Qaddoum, was killed in a missile attack along with her father while they rode a motorcycle to go shopping for groceries. At least 55 people were wounded and being treated at hospitals as a result of the Israeli raids. The health ministry in Gaza said at least 10 people were killed including al-Jabari and a five-year-old girl. Taysir al-Jabari, a commander of the al-Quds Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Jihad, died in an air raid on an apartment in the Palestine Tower in the centre of Gaza City, the group said. forces and of involvement in killing peaceful pro-democracy activists.Įarlier in June, Iraq released Iran-aligned militia commander Qasim Muslih, who was arrested in May on terrorism-related charges, after authorities found insufficient evidence against him.Gaza City – Israel attacked the besieged Gaza Strip with warplanes on Friday, killing at least 10 people including a commander of the Islamic Jihad group and a young girl. Iraq's government is struggling to deal with militias ideologically aligned with Iran which are accused of rocket fire against U.S. "We assess each strike hit the intended targets," one of the officials told Reuters. military carried out strikes with F-15 and F-16 aircraft, officials said, adding the pilots made it back from the mission safely. One of the facilities targeted was used to launch and recover the drones, a defense official said. The Pentagon said the facilities targeted were used by Iran-backed militia including Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada. and coalition personnel in Iraq since April. officials, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said Iran-backed militias carried out at least five drone attacks against facilities used by U.S. military has been helping Baghdad combat the remnants of Islamic State. personnel and facilities in Iraq, where the U.S. officials believe Iran is behind a ramp-up in increasingly sophisticated drone attacks and periodic rocket fire against U.S. Those efforts have raised serious concerns in Israel, Iran's arch-foe.
efforts to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal. But Biden will meet Israel's outgoing president, Reuven Rivlin, at the White House on Monday for a broad discussion that will include Iran and U.S. militaries continue close coordination in a separate battle in Iraq, fighting remnants of the Sunni extremist group Islamic State.īiden and the White House declined comment on the strikes on Sunday. In an apparent indication that Baghdad is determined to avoid getting sucked into a U.S.-Iran escalation, Iraq's military issued a rare condemnation of the U.S. "Certainly what the United States is doing is disrupting security in the region, and one of the victims of this disruption will be the United States," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday.
Iran called on the United States to avoid "creating crisis" in the region. The decision to retaliate appears to show how Biden aims to compartmentalize such defensive strikes, while simultaneously engaging Tehran in diplomacy.īiden's critics say Iran cannot be trusted and point to the drone attacks as further evidence that Iran and its proxies will never accept a U.S.
The strikes came even as Biden's administration is looking to potentially revive a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. personnel," the Pentagon said in a statement.
"As demonstrated by this evening's strikes, President Biden has been clear that he will act to protect U.S. Biden last ordered limited strikes in Syria in February, that time in response to rocket attacks in Iraq. The strikes came at the direction of President Joe Biden, the second time he has ordered retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militia since taking office five months ago.
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