Today, an explosive device targeted diplomatic vehicles belonging to the British embassy in central Baghdad, hours after the heavily fortified Green Zone was targeted by two Katyusha missiles.
The British embassy in Baghdad said that the explosion did not cause any casualties, while an Iraqi security source said that the accident occurred in front of the Umm al-Tabool mosque in the Yarmouk area, near one of the gates of the Green Zone in central Baghdad.
Iraqi Police spokesman Captain Hatem Al-Jabri said that the explosion caused some material damage to the security fence surrounding the Green Zone, noting that the security forces imposed a cordon around the site of the explosion, and closed the gate of the Green Zone near it.
CRAM Air Defense firing in Baghdad tonight intercepting a rocket fired at the Green zone #Iraq pic.twitter.com/hdEQ6GBacu
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Bombing the Green Zone
The explosion comes a few hours after unidentified persons fired 3 Katyusha rockets at the Green Zone at dawn today, but no injuries were reported.
Platforms on social media circulated videos that documented the moment the air defense system in the Green Zone known as "C-RAM" responded to a missile attack that targeted the place.
And there were reports that US forces had tested the "C-RAM" defense system near the US embassy in the Green Zone, which confirms the presence of that system in the fortified area.
The Green Zone includes government and parliament headquarters and officials' homes, in addition to foreign diplomatic missions, including the US embassy, which is under repeated missile attacks.
Washington accuses armed Iraqi factions - most notably the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades - of being behind the attacks targeting its embassy and military bases in which their soldiers are deployed in the country.
On January 5, the Iraqi parliament voted by majority to end the foreign military presence on the country's territory, following the killing of the Iranian Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Authority, in an American bombing near Baghdad airport.