Syria’s Damascus Airport Out Of Service After Israeli Strikes: Report

Damascus:

The Israeli military carried out a missile strike Monday that put Damascus Worldwide Airport out of service and killed two troopers, Syria’s state information company SANA reported, quoting a navy supply. At round 2:00 am (23:00 GMT), Israel carried out an assault with “barrages of missiles, concentrating on Damascus Worldwide Airport and its environment”, the navy supply instructed SANA.

The assault brought on “the demise of two troopers… placing Damascus Worldwide Airport out of service”, the supply mentioned.

Monday’s strikes hit “positions for Hezbollah and pro-Iranian teams contained in the airport and its environment, together with a weapons warehouse”, the pinnacle of Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul Rahman, instructed AFP.

Since civil warfare broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out tons of of air strikes in opposition to its neighbour, concentrating on authorities troops in addition to allied Iran-backed forces and fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

Israel not often feedback on reviews of its assaults, but it surely has repeatedly mentioned it is not going to permit its archfoe Iran to realize a foothold in Syria.

The final time the airport was out of service was in June — additionally after Israeli air strikes.

Monday’s air strike in Syria comes after the war-racked nation skilled its lowest yearly demise rely because the battle began over a decade in the past.

A minimum of 3,825 folks died in Syria’s warfare in 2022, in accordance figures compiled by Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights — down from the earlier yr’s 3,882.

Amongst these killed in 2022 have been 1,627 civilians, together with 321 youngsters, in keeping with the Observatory, which depends on a large community of sources on the bottom in Syria.

After years of lethal preventing and bombardments following the brutal suppression of 2011 anti-government protests, the battle has largely abated within the final three years.

Sporadic preventing at instances breaks out and jihadist assaults proceed, primarily within the east of the nation.

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