Israeli bombings they put them out of service two main airports in Syriain Aleppo and Damascus, where a civilian worker was also killed, state press reported.
“The Israeli enemy carried out … an air strike” at dawn against the international airports of Damascus and Aleppo, a military source said in a statement carried by the Syrian state news agency SANA.
These actions “They killed a civilian worker at the Damascus airport and injured another,” he continued.
“The material damage to the airport runways left them out of service,” the statement added.
The Ministry of Transportation reported that flights were diverted to the airport in Latakia, a coastal city in the northwest of the country.
The military source cited by SANA explained in the statement that the “simultaneous” attacks were “directed from the Mediterranean to the west of Latakia and the occupied Golan Heights,” a Syrian territory annexed by Israel in 1967.
Israel’s second attack on Syrian airports
It is the second time since the beginning of the conflict this month with the Palestinian movement Hamas that the Israeli Army has simultaneously hit these two airports, recurring targets of its attacks against areas of Syria under government control.
The first was on October 12, when simultaneous actions by Israel already left these two infrastructures out of service.
The bombing took place five days after the attack launched by the Hamas movement from Gaza on Israel and which left 1,400 dead and the taking of nearly 200 hostages.
A couple of days before, Israel had denounced the launch of missiles from Syria towards its territory, several of which crossed the border and hit open areas, without causing casualties.
Thousands of Palestinians live in refugee camps in Syria.
Last weekend, new Israeli bombings wounded five people at Aleppo airport, a war monitoring organization said, and brought it to a standstill, according to local authorities.
During more than a decade of war in Syria, Israel launched hundreds of airstrikes against the neighboring countrymainly against positions of government troops, pro-Iranian forces and fighters from the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
Israel rarely reports these attacks on Syrian soil, but has repeatedly argued that it will not allow its Iranian enemy to increase its presence in the neighboring country.
Source: Ambito
