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The Israeli regime has conducted 'several' air strikes against the Aleppo International Airport

2022-09-01

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The Israeli regime has conducted "several" air strikes against the Aleppo International Airport in western Syria, targeting the facility with missiles.https://t.co/3CMjdbJnp0
— Press TV (@PressTV) August 31, 2022

The Israeli regime has conducted "several" air strikes against the Aleppo International Airport in western Syria, targeting the facility with missiles. The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported the offensive on Wednesday, citing a military source.

"At around 20:00 hours (17:00 GMT), the Israeli enemy targeted Aleppo International Airport with missile fire, causing material damage at the heart of the facility," the agency said.

The report did not make any mention of possible human losses.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based so-called monitor, said four Israeli missiles had targeted the runway and depots at the airport.

Also on Wednesday, SANA added, "The army air defenses repelled hostile missiles over [the capital] Damascus and its countryside, downing a number of them." The country's state television said the missiles had been fired by the Israeli regime.

#UPDATE: Following the strikes in Aleppo tonight there were reported airstrikes in Damascus too. Hearing Aleppo International Airport is out of service and Damascus International Airport may also be
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) August 31, 2022

The Times of Israel adds:

Syria accused Israel of carrying out two consecutive ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on Wednesday night, the first against the Aleppo International Airport and the second near the capital Damascus.

According to the state-run SANA news agency, the first airstrike caused damage to the airport in northern Syria. It did not provide further details. Images published on social media appeared to show several fires in the area.

Aleppo is a major city in northern Syria, near its border with ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, and is an uncommon — though not unprecedented — site for reported Israeli airstrikes. The last reported Israeli strikes in the area were in July 2021.

Shortly after the strike on Aleppo, SANA said air defenses were engaging another Israeli airstrike, over the capital Damascus. The news agency claimed that a number of "hostile missiles" were downed over Damascus and the surrounding countryside. Syria regularly claims to intercept Israeli missiles, though military analysts doubt such assertions.

SANA said damage was caused to several sites that were hit in the attack near Damascus, without elaborating further. There were no immediate reports of injuries in the alleged attacks.

As a rule, Israel’s military does not comment on specific strikes in Syria, but has admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country. It says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups, chief among them Lebanese

Hezbollah.

Generally, relatively large weapons are thought to be smuggled via Syria on Iranian cargo airlines, which frequently land at Damascus International and the Tiyas, or T-4, airbase, outside of the central Syrian city of Palmyra. The weaponry is then believed to be stored in warehouses in the area before being trucked to ~~Lebanon~~ Hezbollahstan
<del>Lebanon</del> Hezbollahstan

...the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade...
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor with unclear funding, immediately claimed Wednesday’s airstrike near Aleppo targeted four warehouses "likely" containing shipments of Iranian missiles. The unverified claim was picked up by Hebrew language media, despite the fact that the organization, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false reporting, inflating casualty numbers, as well as inventing them out of whole cloth.

Posted by:Fred

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