Israeli planes carried out strikes on airports in Aleppo and Damascus early Sunday, knocking both out of service, Syria’s state-run media said, marking the third such attack in 10 days.
One civilian worker was killed and another wounded in the strike on the Damascus airport, the SANA state news agency said.
Runways in both airports were damaged, causing all flights in and out of both airports to be canceled or diverted to an airport in coastal Latakia, SANA said. Official notices to international aviation authorities, known as NOTAMs, indicated that the runways would be unusable for at least two days.
According to SANA, Israeli missiles fired from the Golan Heights hit the Damascus International Airport, and jets flying over the Mediterranean near Latakia struck Aleppo International Airport in Syria’s second city. The strikes came simultaneously at around 5:35 a.m., it said.
The reported attacks come as tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group have brought the two to the cusp of all-out battle, and with the Israel Defense Forces gearing up for a ground invasion of Gaza to uproot the Hamas terror group, responsible for massacring some 1,400 people in southern Israel two weeks ago.
