Within hours of the drone strike, Iraq responded to Israel
Iraq's state-owned para-militia forces claimed a counter-drone attack on the Israeli city of Eilat. On Saturday (April 20), China's state broadcaster CGTN reported this information. The Popular Mobilization Forces said in a statement that a drone attack was carried out in the Israeli city of Eilat on the coast of the Red Sea. The statement mentioned that the drone strike was carried out in response to the attack on the army base. On Friday (April 19) late night, an airstrike took place on a para-militia army base. One soldier was killed and 6 others were injured in that attack. The para-militia force known as the Popular Mobilization Forces is an Iranian-backed and mainly Shiite armed group…