Syria accuses Israel of carrying out a new missile attack against the Aleppo International Airportin the northwest of the country, which has been put out of service due to material damage caused by the action, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported.
The Israeli aviation launched the projectiles around 4:30 local time (1:30 GMT) from a point in the Mediterranean Sea located off the Syrian coast, causing damage to the airfield’s runways, according to SANA, citing an unnamed military source.
The source specified that the Aleppo International Airport has been put out of service, something that has already happened on at least two other occasions this year for the same reasons, one of them while the airport facilities served as a reception point for help for those affected by the earthquakes of last February.
This is the second attack perpetrated by the Jewish State against Syrian territory in less than a week, after last Monday night a soldier from the Arab country was injured in another missile launch against the outskirts of Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in the United Kingdom and a wide network of collaborators on the ground, assured then that warehouses and positions of the Lebanese Shiite group were located in the attacked points. hezbollahand other pro-Iranian militias.