2 Americans were concussed in the attack on Ain al-Assad

According to the report of Fars International News Agency, two American officials stated in an interview with CNN on Monday that two American soldiers were injured in Saturday’s ballistic missile attack on the Ain al-Asad base in Iraq and suffered from mild concussions.

Sabrina Singh, the spokeswoman of the US Department of Defense, told reporters on Monday that this attack was one of the biggest missile attacks ever carried out against the US.

According to the spokesperson of the Pentagon, two US military personnel were diagnosed with concussions, but after treatment, they are now back to work.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees the country’s forces in West Asia, confirmed the attack on the Ain al-Assad base on Tuesday evening. In Centcom’s statement, it was stated that several missile and rocket attacks targeted this base, several of which hit the base. are carried out, but the use of ballistic missiles in Saturday’s attack is considered a rare event. This happened in a situation where more than 100 days have passed since Israel’s deadly attacks in Gaza, the tensions in the region have peaked.

America, as the main supporter of Israel, with the vengeful reactions of the resistance groups in The area is encountered. ABC reported that as of Thursday, US forces and the international coalition have been the target of more than 143 attacks in Iraq and Syria since October 7.

In Saturday’s attack, this was the second time since Ballistic missiles were used to attack American positions. The Iraqi Islamic Resistance took responsibility for that attack. In a statement, this resistance group mentioned its commitment to resist the “American occupying forces” in the region, and cited the Israeli regime’s massacres against the Palestinian people as the reason for that.

In November, the groups The resistance attacked the American forces with short-range ballistic missiles. In response to this attack, Washington targeted the positions of the Kataib Hezbollah group.

The US attack on the positions of the Iraqi resistance groups intensified the pressure of the Baghdad government on the American forces to leave the country. The Pentagon claims that the presence of the American forces took place at the invitation of the Iraqi government. And nearly two decades of siege of Gaza and imprisonment and torture of thousands of Palestinians began the operation known as “Al-Aqsa storm”. This operation was one of the deadliest attacks against this regime. Hamas fighters penetrated into the occupied territories through the border fences at several points, attacked the villages and besides killing a large number of Israelis, captured a number of them.

The Zionist regime in The response to this operation started heavy attacks against Gaza and put this area under complete siege. At least 25,295 Palestinians have been martyred and 63,000 others have been injured in Israeli attacks in Gaza so far. Despite this, as analysts say, the al-Aqsa operation has imposed a major security-political defeat on Israel.

Israeli regime officials have declared their military goal in this war to destroy Hamas. Meanwhile, many analysts, even in occupied Palestine, have questioned the possibility of realizing this goal. The members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet, in an interview last Tuesday, described the promises of the Israeli authorities for the complete destruction of Hamas as “storytelling”. “rtejustify”>