1. Sabereen news threatens to attack @UNIraq. The muqawama social media have been posting a barrage of messages about one official in the Baghdad office of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) whom they accuse of being a Mossad agent.
2. Then Sabereen news posted CCTV footage of an IED attack on a U.N. convoy around Mosul which happened on August 26, 2020. Sabereen added the logo and music of the facade group Saraya Awliya al-Dam which at the time claimed responsibility for the hit.
3. Sabereen added the following caption to the clip: “The liar of the Netherlands [@JeanineHennis] must know this: Iraq will never become a base for Mossad”.
4. This is the first such threat to the U.N mission in Iraq since September 2020 when Saraya Awliya al-Dam addressed @JeanineHennis directly and asked her ‘not to allow U.S. forces to be transported by the U.N. vehicles', or they will be targeted.
5. They then deleted the message from their own Telegram channel. Most muqawama channels did the same.

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