DAMASCUS — Israeli strikes hit Syria’s
Aleppo airport on Tuesday evening, damaging the runway and putting the facility
out of service, the official SANA news agency said.
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It is the second reported Israeli strike on the
airport in northern Syria in less than a week.
“At around 8:16pm (5:16pm GMT), the Israeli enemy
fired missiles from the Mediterranean Sea ... targeting Aleppo International
Airport, damaging the runway and rendering it out of service,” it said.
SANA said earlier that Syrian air defenses had
intercepted some missiles, and reported material damage.
Syria’s private airline Cham Wings announced that
all flights to and from Aleppo would be routed to the capital Damascus due to
the strikes.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a
Britain-based war monitor, said several explosions were heard near Aleppo
airport, “resulting from Israeli strikes on warehouses of Iran-affiliated
militias”.
The monitor, which has a vast network of sources on
the ground in Syria, said at least two missiles destroyed the depots, causing a
fire and “heavy material damage”.
On Wednesday last week, SANA said Israeli strikes
hit Aleppo airport, causing “some material damage”.
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