BEIRUT: An Israeli airstrike on Sunday (Nov 26) 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 occasions for the reason that onset of the Hamas-Israel warfare 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, putting Damascus Worldwide Airport and different areas within the Damascus countryside inflicting materials harm. There was no point out of casualties.
Britain-based opposition warfare monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, mentioned the strikes got here simply hours after the airport resumed flights after a month-long hiatus following a earlier Israeli strike.
Israel has carried out tons of of strikes on targets inside authorities managed elements of warfare torn Syria lately.
It doesn’t normally acknowledge its airstrikes on Syria. Nevertheless when it does, it says it’s concentrating on Iranian-backed teams there which have backed President Bashar Assad’s authorities.