The Kuwaiti army stated that Iran's drone attack targeted several vital facilities, including a government facility in northern Kuwait. It said civilian vehicles of a civilian company on Bubiyan Island were damaged by shrapnel, causing property damage.
The Kuwaiti army's latest statement, issued Saturday, confirms that the Iranian drone strike this morning hit a government facility in northern Kuwait and caused shrapnel damage to civilian vehicles belonging to a private company on Bubiyan Island, causing property damage but no casualties. The additional detail on civilian vehicle damage follows earlier reports from the same timeframe.
The sequence of events began at 09:30 Jerusalem time, when the Kuwaiti army first announced it was intercepting an Iranian missile attack. Within the same hour, reports emerged of Iranian drones targeting US military installations in Kuwait. The army subsequently confirmed that the strike had targeted a government facility in the north, and now the latest statement adds that civilian vehicles on Bubiyan Island were damaged by shrapnel. No casualties have been reported throughout the morning's developments.
The Zioneer has reported on previous Iranian strikes on Kuwait, including satellite imagery on July 19 showing damage to the Kuwait National Oil Company's collection center, and a July 24 announcement of a new wave of drone attacks. The ongoing kinetic confrontation between Iran and the United States continues to draw Kuwait into the conflict, as the Gulf state's air defense systems remain active.
The full extent of the damage to the government facility and the civilian vehicles remains unverified by independent sources. US Central Command has not released a statement on this specific incident. The operational status of the affected civilian company's vehicles has not been detailed.
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