Syria claims an Israeli strike briefly shut down Damascus Airport
The Damascus International Airport was briefly out of commission due to an Israeli missile assault on Monday, the latest in a succession of attacks on targets connected to Iran, according to the Syrian army.
At two in the morning, a barrage of air-launched missiles struck the airport, according to a statement from the army. They had traveled from Israel’s Lake Tiberias in that direction.
The Syrian army reported that missiles had also struck locations in the south of Damascus, killing two soldiers and caused some property damage.
Flights would resume by 9 a.m., the transport ministry stated in an online statement, adding that workers had cleared the strike-related debris.
Two local intelligence sources had earlier reported that the Quds Force and the militias it supports were attacked at an outpost close to the airport. In recent years, their presence in Syria has grown.
The Israel Defense Force did not respond to inquiries about the attack right away.
Israeli airstrikes on civilian airports, including Damascus International, increased last year in an effort to thwart Tehran’s growing reliance on aerial supply routes to ship weapons to Hezbollah and other allies in Syria and Lebanon.
In June, flights into and out of the airport were suspended by Syria for about two weeks as a result of Israeli airstrikes that seriously damaged the airport’s infrastructure, including a runway and a terminal.
In September, Israel launched missiles at Damascus International once more while also attacking Aleppo, the nation’s second-largest city and home to the airport, rendering it inoperable for a number of days.
Following Israeli disruption of the ground supply, Western and regional intelligence sources claim Tehran has adopted commercial jet travel as a more dependable method of delivering military materiel to its soldiers and to allied fighters in Syria.
