BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli airstrike Sunday hit the worldwide airport within the Syrian capital of Damascus and put it out of fee, Syrian state media mentioned.
Israel has struck Syria’s Damascus and Aleppo worldwide airports a number of instances because the onset of the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza on Oct. 7. Israel has additionally struck elements of western Syria after rocket hearth landed on the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
SANA, citing an unnamed army official, mentioned Israel fired missiles from the course of the Golan Heights, placing Damascus Worldwide Airport and different areas within the Damascus countryside inflicting materials injury. There was no point out of casualties.
Britain-based opposition struggle monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, mentioned the strikes got here simply hours after the airport resumed flights after a monthlong hiatus following a earlier Israeli strike.
Israel has carried out lots of of strikes on targets inside government-controlled elements of war-torn Syria lately.
It doesn’t normally acknowledge its airstrikes on Syria. Nonetheless when it does, it says it’s focusing on Iranian-backed teams there which have backed President Bashar Assad’s authorities.
