Iran has exponentially increased the role of its proxies in recent years, expanding them in Iraq and Syria and aiding the Houthis to increase the range of their drones and missiles.
After the Hamas attack on October 7, Iran pushed each militia to begin attacks, in a slowly increasing list of attacks from multiple fronts. This includes Hezbollah, the Houthis, and militias in Iraq and Syria. Pro-Iran media recently said that an Iranian-backed terror group in Bahrain had also carried out two attacks.
Some attacks do not reach Israel
Most of these attacks consist of “claims,” not necessarily evidence they ever reach Israel. This is because long-range, low-tech drones being used by these groups are notoriously ineffective and prone to breakdowns along the flight path.
Nevertheless, the latest claim was on May 5 when “according to Al-Mayadeen news network, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced Sunday that it had launched a cruise missile at the Haifa port.” The report says that “the cruise missile, the Arqab, was launched from Iraqi soil toward the occupied Palestinian territories, the Iraqi Resistance said that the operation was carried out to support the Palestinian cause amid the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.” READ MORE
