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A drone crashed near a village in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights, Israel\u2019s army said Thursday, after an Iraqi armed group with links to Hamas militants claimed responsibility for an attack in the area.<\/p>\n
Israeli media reported that a drone probably carrying explosives launched from Syria was shot down late Wednesday evening south of the settlement of Eliad, causing no injuries but some material damage.<\/p>\n
The Israeli army told AFP that the drone had crashed near Eliad, but gave no further details.<\/p>\n
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose formation of pro-Iran armed groups, said in a statement it had hit a \u201cvital target\u201d south of Eliad with \u201cappropriate weaponry\u201d.<\/p>\n
Israel has repeatedly vowed to keep up its campaign to destroy Hamas in retaliation for its bloody October 7 attack, which left about 1,140 people dead, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s bombardment and ground invasion have killed at least 21,110 people, mostly women and children, according to the latest toll from Gaza\u2019s Hamas-run health ministry.<\/p>\n
Since the war in Gaza began, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks against US and international coalition forces in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n
Washington has counted 103 attacks against its forces in Iraq and Syria since 17 October, according to a US military official.<\/p>\n
Most of those attacks have been claimed by factions of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq that oppose US support for Israel in its war against Hamas.<\/p>\n
But the group has so far claimed few direct attacks against Israeli interests.<\/p>\n
Israel conquered part of the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war before annexing the territory in 1981.<\/p>\n
The annexation is not recognized by the United Nations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n