[4] Rabin had previously supervised Operation Bramble Bush, a failed 1992 plan to assassinate Saddam with Sayeret Matkal commandos.

[7] The Dawa Party of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called on Islamic countries to cut relations with Israel and end all "secret and public talks" with it.

[8] Also the Iraqi Shia leader Ali al-Sistani has called for decisive action by Arab and Muslim states for an end to Israeli attacks on Gaza.

"[9] After the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid, an Iraqi government official, MP Khairallah al-Basri (a member of current premier Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law Coalition), condemned the attack and described it as a "new humanitarian disaster" as well as "a violation of human rights and a breach of international standards and norms.

"[10] On July 1, 2012, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said that Iraq will establish diplomatic relations with all sovereign United Nations member states except Israel.

After the US invasion of Iraq, only 7,500 refugees out of 35,000 Palestinians remained there, according to UN estimates, most of whom left their homes after organized campaigns by armed militias and US forces, to camps in the desert near the Syrian and Jordanian borders, and then to various countries including Brazil, the United States, New Zealand, Sweden, Cyprus and neighboring Arab countries, in a move condemned by international organizations and humanitarian organizations in the world, as Amnesty International condemned the violations of Palestinian refugees' rights in Iraq, while denouncing the failure of the Iraqi government and US forces to work to protect them, and it also issued an appeal to save them.

Prominent Iraqi political figures also expressed their support for the unity of the Palestinian people with all its factions, and for their uprising against the Israeli occupation and its cause.

On the popular and sports level, the Iraqi national football team played its first international matches on home soil since 2003 against its Palestinian counterpart in Erbil in 2009, an event that was an important indicator of the return of normal life to Iraq.

On February 9, 2021, Haider Mansour Al-Athari presented his credentials as a non-resident ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Palestine to the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, in the Jordanian capital, Amman.