On 29 July 2026, shortly after 11:20, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba (Nujaba — official armed group channel), Noon Media (Nujaba — official social media channel) and Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official owned media) published a signed statement dated 14 Safar 1448 / 29 July 2026 saying that "at dawn today the hands of treachery and criminality extended, with their aircraft and their spiteful missiles, to strike the depths of Iraq's safe cities" in an aggression it attributes to "the brutal American occupation and the mercenary Saudi coalition." The statement declares that "the blood of our righteous martyrs will not go to waste and the masks have fallen forever under the weight of iron and fire," then issues five "decisive and non-negotiable" demands to the Iraqi government: expel the occupier's bases and headquarters, sever all forms of cooperation with "the criminal Saudi regime… the head of the snake and the financier of terrorism against Iraq," break its silence rather than issue condemnations that "tempt the aggressor," secure advanced air-defence systems and hold accountable whoever left Iraqi skies open, and fifthly that "we in Harakat al-Nujaba will not permit the tyrants of Washington and the Arabs of Saudi Arabia to defile the soil of Iraq without a heavy price paid from their interests and their security." The same full text was carried verbatim by Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official owned media), Sabereen News (KH — affiliated/aligned media) and Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibi (KSS — affiliated/aligned media); no other tracked faction issued a statement of its own on the strike in the collected window.
Opening the record…