Israeli strikes rendered, on Sunday, Syria’s two main airports in Damascus and Aleppo inoperative. This marks the second simultaneous Israeli strike this month that has impacted these facilities, forcing flights to be rerouted to Latakia due to the damage incurred.
Israeli strikes put out of service, on Sunday war-torn Syria’s two main airports, state media reported, citing a military source, with the Ministry of Transport saying flights were re-routed to Latakia.
While Israeli strikes have repeatedly caused the grounding of flights at the government-controlled airports in the capital, Damascus, and the northern city of Aleppo, it is the second time simultaneous strikes have hit the facilities since the conflict between Israel and Hamas began earlier this month.
“At around 5:25 am (02:25 GMT), the Israeli enemy carried out (…) an air attack (…) targeting Damascus and Aleppo international airports, leading to the death of a civilian worker at Damascus airport and wounding another,” the military source said in the statement carried by state news agency SANA.
The military source said the “simultaneous” strikes came “from the direction of the Mediterranean west of Latakia and from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan,” according to the statement.
On October 12, simultaneous strikes knocked both Damascus and Aleppo airports out of service, Syria informed. Last weekend, Israeli strikes targeted Aleppo airport, wounding five people, a war monitor reported, also putting it out of service, according to the authorities.
During more than a decade of war in Syria, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes on its northern neighbor, primarily targeting Iran-backed forces, Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, and Syrian army positions.
Gabriela De La Cruz, with AFP
