Iraqi authorities suspect that two storage sites for Chinese-made man-portable air-defense systems, recently delivered from Iran to Iran-aligned Iraqi factions, were hit by airstrikes that destroyed large quantities of the shipments. Reports quoted an Iraqi security official saying Baghdad has indications pointing to Israeli responsibility, without determining how the strikes were carried out, against the backdrop of a series of explosions at warehouses of Iran-aligned factions around Baghdad since October 1.
Al-Sharq Al-Awsat focused on the intelligence details and the assessment that the war on Iran may have resumed through Iraq, while Lebanon Debate relayed the information from Al-Sharq Al-Awsat while highlighting the explosions since October 1 and the destruction of large shipments, whereas Euronews emphasized the impossibility of independent verification and the lack of a final attribution of responsibility.