Two unmanned aerial vehicles struck during the night the Italian military installation located in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistanfurther increasing tension in a region already experiencing military escalation on multiple fronts. The attack occurred at 11.10pm local time inside the base Camp Singara and affected the bar-restaurant area of the compound, known among the military by the name of «The Fort».The detonation caused a fire involving at least two vehicles in the area. Despite the violence of the explosion, no Italian soldier was injured. The base’s firefighting teams intervened immediately and managed to put out the flames before they could spread to other buildings in the complex. The episode takes place during a particularly difficult night for the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. The governor of Erbil, Umid Khoshnavreported that a total of 17 attacks had been recorded against the city. “All the drones were intercepted and there were no victims”, he explained, specifying that the damage concerned exclusively structures and infrastructures. A fire also broke out in the area of Erbil airportwhere a US base is located, after the impact of a suicide drone. Other fragments of an aircraft shot down by the defense systems fell on the roof of the Saad Abdullah Conference Halla building in the city center also used for meetings of the Council of Ministers of the Kurdish regional government. A further drone instead crashed on the roof of a private house causing material damage. While Northern Iraq was hit by these attacks, the regional conflict continued to expand. In the same hours the Israeli army launched a vast military operation against Hezbollah-linked infrastructure in several areas of Lebanon.
According to what was communicated by the Israeli army, during the operations numerous launch systems ready for use were identified and destroyed and several militiamen from the Shiite movement were eliminated while they were preparing to launch rockets against Israeli territory. In the same hours the Israeli air force hit a series of targets in the southern suburb of BeirutDahieh, considered one of the main strongholds of Hezbollah. In the space of about thirty minutes, at least ten sites were bombed, including the group’s intelligence headquarters, a base of the elite Radwan unit and several command centers. Other coordinated operations between ground forces and the air force targeted over twenty targets. The fighting was accompanied by new ones missile launches towards Israel from both Iran and Lebanon. In the early hours of the morning the alarm sirens rang out at 2after the detection of carriers launched from Iranian territory. Shortly afterwards the alarms were also activated in the center of the state and in the north due to further attacks coming from Lebanon. Most of the missiles were intercepted by defense systems, while others fell in uninhabited areas. The Israeli emergency services of Magen David Adom they reported that there were no injuries. According to a statement from the Iranian Revolutionary Guardsthe bombings against Israel represent a “joint and coordinated operation” with Hezbollah. In a statement released by the Iranian Tasnim agency, the military said it had launched several ballistic missiles while the Lebanese Shiite movement used drones and rockets against more than fifty Israeli targets. During the same operations, Hezbollah fired approximately one hundred rockets towards northern Israel. The war continues as US intelligence assessments indicate that despite nearly two weeks of bombing conducted by United States And Israelthe Iranian leadership remains largely intact. According to sources cited by Reuters, several confidential analyzes agree that The power system of Islamic Republic is not currently close to collapse and continues to maintain control of the country.
Even Israeli government circlesin confidential conversations, they would have acknowledged that there is no certainty that the conflict will lead to the fall of the clerical regime in Tehran. The situation therefore remains fluid and could evolve rapidly. On the diplomatic level, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for Iran to stop attacks against the Gulf countries. The text, adopted with thirteen votes in favor and the abstention of China and Russia, urges Tehran to immediately cease actions against Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Jordan. The resolution also condemns any attempt to interfere with navigation on the Strait of Hormuza strategic passage for global oil and gas trade. In recent weeks theIran has targeted several merchant ships in the area, seeking to put pressure on the global economy in response to military attacks. Moscow and Beijing they decided not to oppose the vote but abstained, contesting the fact that the document does not explicitly mention military operations conducted by the United States and Israel against Iran. The conflict, meanwhile, continues to widen, with new fronts of tension opening up from Iraq to Lebanon to the Persian Gulf.
