SECOND secret Israeli base discovered in Iraqi desert

Iraqi lawmakers have revealed that Israel built a second secret base in the desert in Iraq. This comes after a shepherd was found dead for exposing the first.

This means that Israel, a genocidal terrorist state, operated two covert bases intermittently and illegally for well over a year.

Only last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on the first illegal outpost in the Iraqi desert. Since then, Iraqi officials have told The New York Times that there was another undisclosed base. This is also in Iraq’s western desert.

According to the New York Times, Israel used the first base, which Mr. al-Shammari discovered, during the 12-day war in June 2025. As far back as 2024, the IOF started preparing to build the makeshift base by identifying remote sites from which it could operate.

To make matters worse, it has become clear that the US knew about at least one of the bases since June 2025, or even earlier. This means that the US failed to tell Iraq that hostile forces were on its soil.

Iraq — ‘western desert region’

One Iraqi lawmaker, Hassan Fadaam, told The New York Times that Israel had established at least one other outpost. He said:

The one in al-Nukhaib is just the only one that was found out.

A second official confirmed the existence of a second base. They did not provide a location; however, they said it was also in a “western desert region”.

According to Iraqi officials, official protocol requires Washington to inform Baghdad of any activities on Iraqi soil. So, did the US purposefully conceal the Israeli activity? Or did it inform Iraq’s top command of the operations, which kept them confidential?

The officials thought it was extremely unlikely, however, that Iraqi leaders knew the presence was Israeli until the exposure by the shepherd. It also most likely assumed the sites were American.

According to the family of the shepherd, authorities have ignored his murder.

Officials also reported that the US role in Iraqi security was part of Israel’s “calculations” in deciding it could operate safely and clandestinely in Iraq.

The first Israeli base in al-Nukhaib is no longer operative; however, the status of the second is currently unknown.

Israel is a rogue terrorist state. The setting up and operating of clandestine military outposts on sovereign Iraqi territory is a blatant war crime. How can anyone believe that Israel truly wants peace in the region when it keeps invading the region’s countries time and time again?

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