Israeli satellites showed traces of a raid on a Popular Mobilization depot near an air base north of Baghdad, while Tel Aviv hinted responsibility for the attack.
Israeli press sources said the raid was part of efforts to eliminate a land bridge used to transport weapons from Iran to Syria and then to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for the second time in a week, hinted at Tel Aviv's responsibility for attacks on Hashd bases in Iraq.
"Israel is operating in many areas against Iran, of course," Netanyahu told Israel's Channel 9 Russian-speaking channel when asked about the bombing of the crowd.
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Rejection of war
In the meantime, called on the political leadership in Iraq to await the ongoing investigations on the targeting of a number of camps of the Popular Mobilization, and confirmed its rejection of war, and the country away from conflicts in the region.
Prime Minister Adel al-Mahdi, President Barham Salih and parliament speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi met in Baghdad on Thursday, a day after Abu Ali al-Mohandes, deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Council, made explicit accusations to the United States that it had facilitated Israel's bombing of crowd camps in different parts of Iraq, a charge denied by Washington.
Earlier, the head of the crowd, Faleh Fayyad, said that the engineer's accusations of US troops in Iraq "does not represent the official position of the body."
The Iraqi news agency said that the three presidents discussed at length the security situation, especially the bombings of weapons stores in recent days.
She added that they affirmed the commitment of the Iraqi state in its various institutions rejecting the war, as stated in the document of the unified national policy on the necessity of taking into account the sovereignty, security and independence of Iraq, rejecting the policy of axes and settling accounts, and distancing the country from being a springboard to attack any neighboring countries and the region, according to the agency Iraqi.
It is noteworthy that four camps of the Popular Mobilization - in northern and southern Baghdad - during the past two months to explosions conflicting reports, the latest occurred on Tuesday evening at the headquarters near Balad air base north of the capital Baghdad, where the US military.