The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced that an Israeli air strike targeted Aleppo Airport, a city in northern Syria, a few days after similar raids on Aleppo and Damascus airports.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence France-Presse, “An Israeli air strike coming from the sea hit Aleppo airport.”
Syrian state media also confirmed the raid, with state television reporting “an Israeli aggression targeting Aleppo International Airport.”
Israeli raids targeted the airports of the Syrian capital, Damascus, and Aleppo, on Thursday, putting them out of service, according to official media.
Saturday’s strikes come hours after Aleppo airport reopened, putting it out of service again, according to OSDH, a UK-based NGO with an extensive network of sources in Syria.
On Tuesday, for the first time after the attack launched by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas against Israel on October 7, the Israeli army announced that it had fired shells into Syria from the Golan Heights in response to the “firing” of projectiles into these Israeli-occupied territories. Since 1967.
Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes on Syrian territory since the start of the war there in 2011.
Its air forces particularly targeted Iranian-backed forces and Lebanese Hezbollah, allies of Damascus and arch enemies of Israel, as well as the Syrian army.
Damascus and Aleppo airports have already been targeted several times.
Israel, Syria’s neighbor, rarely comments on strikes in Syria, but says it wants to prevent Iran from establishing a presence on its doorstep.
