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

The Iranian-backed armed group in Iraq has issued a claim of responsibility for an aerial attack on Israel’s Red Sea port city of Eilat on April 1 that caused no casualties, the military said.

The military’s statement said a flying object launched from the east of Israel had struck a building in Eilat, Arab News reports.

It did not elaborate on the object or the provenance. Sirens went off in the city but there was no interception by air defences, it said.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a militia, said in a statement that it had attacked a “vital objective” in Israel “using appropriate weapons.” It did not offer further details.

Eilat has come under repeated missile and drone attacks from the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen during Israel’s 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.