Kurdistan
The aftermath of the IRGC's attack on Peshrawa Dizayee's house. Photo: Bilind T. Abdullah/ Rudaw
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Erbil’s civil defense directorate on Tuesday announced that the week-long search for Peshraw Dizayee’s housekeeper's body on the grounds of the Kurdish businessman’s mansion, struck last week in the attack by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC), has come to an end, with the housekeeper still missing.
“After a week of search for Michelle [the housekeeper], her fate is still unknown,” said Erbil civil defense’s Kochar Abdulla in a press conference at the site of the attack on Tuesday.
Abdullah said that the civil defense team only found some “small body parts” which were sent to a laboratory to be tested and compared with victims’ DNA for identification.
According to the civil defense report on the attack, Michelle Mendoza was in the front section of the house when the attack happened. That section was completely destroyed.
For eight days, around 300 members of Erbil’s civil defense team participated in the search for Michelle and the debris removal process at the site of the strike, according to Karwan Mirawdali, the spokesperson for Erbil civil defense.
Mirawdali said during a press conference on Sunday that body parts had been found among the ruins of the house and were sent to the city’s forensics medicine department.
“We cannot be certain that the body parts are Michelle’s, and Erbil's forensics department says the results will be out in a week,” he said.
Last week, the IRGC fired ten ballistic missiles at what it alleged was a Mossad base in the family home of Kurdish businessman Peshraw Dizayee. Dizayee, his baby daughter Zhina, businessman Karam Mikhail, and a Filipina housekeeper, Michelle, were killed in the attack.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has categorically denied the existence of Israeli intelligence bases in the Kurdistan Region.
Iraqi officials concur, with National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji stating on X that “the claims that a Mossad headquarters was targeted are baseless.”
A representative from Dizayee’s business, Falcon Group, also denied that the business magnate had any ties to intelligence agencies.
“After a week of search for Michelle [the housekeeper], her fate is still unknown,” said Erbil civil defense’s Kochar Abdulla in a press conference at the site of the attack on Tuesday.
Abdullah said that the civil defense team only found some “small body parts” which were sent to a laboratory to be tested and compared with victims’ DNA for identification.
According to the civil defense report on the attack, Michelle Mendoza was in the front section of the house when the attack happened. That section was completely destroyed.
For eight days, around 300 members of Erbil’s civil defense team participated in the search for Michelle and the debris removal process at the site of the strike, according to Karwan Mirawdali, the spokesperson for Erbil civil defense.
Mirawdali said during a press conference on Sunday that body parts had been found among the ruins of the house and were sent to the city’s forensics medicine department.
“We cannot be certain that the body parts are Michelle’s, and Erbil's forensics department says the results will be out in a week,” he said.
Last week, the IRGC fired ten ballistic missiles at what it alleged was a Mossad base in the family home of Kurdish businessman Peshraw Dizayee. Dizayee, his baby daughter Zhina, businessman Karam Mikhail, and a Filipina housekeeper, Michelle, were killed in the attack.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has categorically denied the existence of Israeli intelligence bases in the Kurdistan Region.
Iraqi officials concur, with National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji stating on X that “the claims that a Mossad headquarters was targeted are baseless.”
A representative from Dizayee’s business, Falcon Group, also denied that the business magnate had any ties to intelligence agencies.
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