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One rocket landed inside of Baghdad Airport

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

One rocket 🚀 landed inside of #Baghdad Airport close to the area that hosts US/#Coalition diplomats/military.
Recent attacks have been mainly limited to one or two rockets and it looks like they are fired to harass but it always takes only ONE rocket to cross "the redlines".
— Nafiseh Kohnavard (@nafisehkBBC) July 5, 2020

The #Iraqi military says a rocket aimed at #Baghdad’s fortified #GreenZone, home of the #US embassy, struck a residential house and injured a child.#BaghdadPost pic.twitter.com/cXLV5I3Bdu
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) July 5, 2020

An Nahar adds:

One rocket fired at the Green Zone landed near a home, wounding a child, according to the Iraqi military.

"At the same time, our forces were able to thwart another attack and seize a Katyusha rocket and launcher that were targeting the Taji base north of Baghdad," where US-led coalition troops are based, it added.

The attempts came just hours after the US embassy tested a new rocket defense system known as a C-RAM, according to a senior Iraqi security source. The C-RAM, set up earlier this year at the embassy, scans for incoming projectiles and explodes them in the air by targeting them with several thousand bullets per minute.

‘“When the ~~rockets~~ bullets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,” says Wernher von Braun.’

A series of muted blasts could be heard across Baghdad on Saturday as the system was apparently tested, leaving passersby confused and Iraq's parliament outraged. Deputy speaker Hassan al-Kaabi slammed the trial as "provocative" and "unacceptable" as it could put residential areas in danger.

There was no immediate comment from the embassy on whether the system was used against the rocket overnight.