Syria accused Israel this Sunday of launch a new missile attack against Damascus international airport and leaving the facilities out of service again, in the second action of the Jewish State against the country.
The official Syrian news agency SANA, citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), stated that in the afternoon the Damascus airport was once again the target of Israeli air strikes, leaving it inoperative, hours after flights resumed after a similar attack last month.
“The Israeli Air Force carried out A new attack this afternoon against the Damascus international airport (…) leaving him out of combat again,” the Observatory reported.
The attack targeted the landing strips, according to the same source, which also reported sounds of explosions coming from a military airport located in another sector of the Syrian capital.
According to the French news agency AFP, two airlines reported that Flights have resumed from Damascus airport.news that had already been reported by the local press before the authorities did the official announcement of the attacks.
A military source reported, in a statement carried by the official Sana news agency, that, around 16:50 (13:50 GMT), “the Zionist enemy carried out an air attack with missiles from the direction of the Altos of the occupied Syrian Golan. “.
The attack targeted “the Damascus international airport and some points in the Damascus area,” leaving the airport out of operation and causing “material losses,” according to the agency.
Air defenses “destroyed most” of the missiles, but the airport was still damaged, the statement added.
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in neighboring Syria since the start of the country’s civil war in 2011, targeting positions of the Syrian army and Iranian-affiliated groups such as Lebanese Hezbollah.
These attacks have multiplied since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, after a bloody attack by that Islamic movement on Israeli soil on November 7.
The attacks on the airports of Damascus and Aleppo (north) on October 12 and 22 left both infrastructures out of service.
Flights were diverted to Latakia airport on the west coast following the October 22 attacks.
Israel rarely comments on its attacks in Syria, but today declared that it wants to prevent Iran, its archenemy, from gaining a foothold near its territory.
Source: TSF
