Four men – “two Syrian fighters and two Syrian soldiers” – died in Israeli shelling at Damascus International Airport. This was announced by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in the United Kingdom.
According to the official Syrian news agency Sana, the attack took place around 2 a.m. local time (1 a.m. in Italy). “The Israeli enemy carried out an airstrike with a barrage of rockets on Damascus International Airport and its surroundings,” the agency said, citing a Syrian military source, adding that the airport was “out of service.”
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights The Israeli attack targeted “Hezbollah and pro-Iranian positions in and around the airport, including an arms cache.”. Since the start of Syria’s civil war in 2011, Israel has conducted hundreds of airstrikes on its neighbors, targeting positions owned by the Syrian army, pro-Iranian forces and Lebanese Hezbollah. Israel rarely comments on its attacks on Syria, but says it will not allow Iran to expand its influence there.
These raids often take place near Damascus airport, which had already been incapacitated by an attack on
June 10, 2022.
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