An Israeli airstrike hit the worldwide airport within the metropolis of Aleppo in northern Syria early on Monday, damaging a runway and placing it out of service, Syrian state media mentioned.
State information company SANA, citing a navy official, mentioned Israeli planes coming from the Mediterranean Sea carried out the assault at round 4:30 a.m. There have been no casualties reported.
The airport has been focused a number of instances this 12 months, together with two assaults in March that additionally put it out of service.
There was no instant remark from Israeli officers.
Israel has carried out a whole bunch of strikes on targets inside government-controlled components of Syria in recent times, together with assaults on the Damascus and Aleppo airports, but it surely hardly ever acknowledges or discusses the operations. Typically the strikes goal Syrian navy forces or Iranian-backed teams.
Israel has focused airports and sea ports within the government-held components of Syria in an obvious try to forestall arms shipments from Iran to militant teams backed by Tehran, together with Lebanon’s Hezbollah. 1000’s of Iran-backed fighters from across the area joined Syria’s 12-year battle serving to tip the stability in favor of President Bashar Assad’s forces.
Aleppo, which suffered widespread destruction in Syria’s civil conflict, was once more closely broken within the lethal 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria in February.
