Israel is using Iraqi airspace to carry out strikes on Iran, but it is still not taking action against the Shiite militias inside Iraq, Kan News reported on Tuesday morning.

According to a source familiar with the details, Israel is currently “not in the Iraqi arena,” and the only party striking the Shiite militias in recent days—whether targeting facilities or individuals—is the United States.

Kan 11 correspondent Roi Kais reported that the reason is that, at the moment, the pro‑Iranian militias in Iraq are focusing on American targets, not Israeli ones. Although militia officials threaten that attacks on Israeli targets could come later, as seen in the previous war, this is not their current priority.

Two Iraqi sources familiar with the militias’ internal thinking told Kan 11 that the groups prefer not to provoke a situation in which Israel also begins striking them. In other words, they fear that Israel’s response would be powerful—especially since Israel still has an “open account” with these militias from the previous conflict.

In an attempt to reduce the burden on their patron in Tehran, there is a division of labor within the Iranian axis: the pro‑Shiite militias in Iraq attack American targets, while Hezbollah attacks Israeli targets.

This was expressed clearly by the military spokesman of the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades, who wrote over the weekend that “our first mission is to humiliate the Americans and harm their security until they are removed from Iraq.” At the same time, he praised Hezbollah in Lebanon for its steadfastness against Israel.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)