The airport within the northern Syrian metropolis of Aleppo was knocked out of service by a sequence of Israeli airstrikes on Monday.
Syrian state news company SANA, citing a navy supply reported: “At about 4:30 a.m. (1.30 a.m. GMT) this morning, the Israeli enemy undertook an aerial aggression from the direction of the Mediterranean west of Latakia, targeting Aleppo International Airport.”
The assault resulted in injury to the runway, the supply added.
During greater than 12 years of civil warfare in Syria, Israel has launched lots of of airstrikes on its territory, primarily focusing on Iran-backed forces and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in addition to Syrian military positions.
Israel not often feedback on strikes it carries out in Syria however has repeatedly mentioned it won’t permit its arch-foe Iran to broaden its presence within the nation.
An Israeli military spokesperson on Monday advised AFP: “We do not comment on reports in the foreign media.”
Syrian Transport Ministry official Suleiman Khalil mentioned the injury was centered on the one functioning runway, including that “maintenance teams will start repair work today to return the airport to service as quickly as possible.”
Flights had been diverted to Damascus and Latakia airports, he advised AFP.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights mentioned the strikes additionally focused weapons depots on the adjoining Nayrab navy airport.
Israeli strikes have repeatedly induced the grounding of flights on the airports in Aleppo and the capital Damascus, each of that are managed by the federal government.
In early May, Israeli strikes on the Aleppo space killed 4 Syrian officers and three Iran-backed fighters and compelled a halt to flights, in response to the warfare monitor.
Israel strikes put the airport out of service twice in March.
Three individuals had been killed throughout a March 7 strike, whereas one other strike two weeks later destroyed a suspected arms depot utilized by Iran-backed militias at Aleppo airport, the Britain-based Observatory reported.
Monday’s strikes come per week after two fighters backing the Syrian authorities had been killed in Israeli airstrikes on websites close to Damascus, mentioned the Observatory, which depends on a community of sources on the bottom in Syria.
Syria’s warfare has killed greater than 500,000 individuals, displaced hundreds of thousands and battered the nation’s infrastructure and business because it started in 2011.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
