The announcement by the pro-Iranian militias in Iraq of a "new phase" in the fight against Israel and the attack two days ago on the port of Eilat raises the question of whether Israel will begin to act against them.
Senior officials in these militias are convinced that they are in Israel's crosshairs and therefore according to sources in Iraq "they have gone underground" and have not been seen in public in recent days.
An Iraqi security source was quoted in the Arab media: "The leadership of the armed factions became aware that it had become a direct target for Israel, so it took security measures in advance to avoid harm."
The Iraqi armed militias use the desert area located in the Iraqi-Syrian-Jordanian border triangle to launch drones at Israeli military sites in the Golan or the Jordan Valley. In Iraq, there is a fear that the US will help Israel carry out targeted assassinations of the leaders of the organizations there.