A giant picture of Ali Hassan al-Daraaji had been erected outside the family home in north-east Baghdad to announce his "martyrdom" in last week's US airstrikes on Iraqi armed groups.
The strikes left nine fighters dead, including Daraaji, the first Iraqi fatalities linked to the Israel-Hamas war. Even as a tenuous truce takes hold in Gaza, the pace of clashes in Iraq has picked up, highlighting the risk of spillover in a country long mired in conflict.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the US targeted fighters it believed were responsible for dozens of attacks carried out on American troops in Iraq and Syria. The operations have been claimed under the banner of the so-called Islamic Resistance in Iraq in response to "the crimes committed by the enemy against our people in Gaza", according to statements released on its Telegram channel.
The Pentagon said it had acted in defence of its troops, who returned to Iraq in 2014 to help the Iraqi government fight Islamic State (IS).
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