Syria
Aleppo airport has been out of service since the Israeli attack
Israeli bombing damaged the tarmac at the airport in Syria’s second city on Monday morning.
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Since the start of the war in Syria, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Syrian territory.
AFP
An Israeli airstrike targeted the Aleppo (northern) airport early on Monday, knocking it out of service, official news agency SANA reported, citing a military source. “At around 4:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. in Switzerland), the Israeli enemy launched an airstrike from the Mediterranean, west of Latakia, against Aleppo International Airport,” Sanaa said. The company added that the raid “caused property damage to the tarmac which put the airport out of service”.
Since the start of the war in Syria, Israel has launched hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian territory, mainly aimed at Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, allies of Damascus and arch-enemies of Israel, and backed by the Syrian army. Syria’s neighbor Israel has rarely commented on the attacks in each case, but says it wants to prevent Iran from establishing itself on its doorstep.
Many raids this year
An official at the Syrian Ministry of Transport, Sleiman Khalil, pointed out that “the only functional tarmac at the airport has been damaged”. The Aleppo area and airport, home to groups linked to Iran and its allies, have been targeted by Israeli strikes on several occasions since the start of the year.
In early May, four Syrian soldiers and three foreign fighters from pro-Iranian groups were killed in attacks that later targeted other targets, including an airport and a weapons depot, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) said. In March, Israeli strikes put Aleppo Airport out of service twice. The war, sparked by the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Syria in 2011, has killed more than half a million people and displaced millions more.
(AFP)
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