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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel attacked the south of Damascus
2023-01-02
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] Israel struck south of the Syrian capital of Damascus, according to the Syrian state television channel Al-Ikhbariya.

"The Israeli enemy attacked the south of the (Syrian - ed.) capital of Damascus," the channel said in a statement.

The Syrian state agency SANA previously reported explosions in the sky over the Syrian capital. According to him, the Syrian air defense repelled the attack in the sky over Damascus.
Incompletely, no doubt, as they always do.
The Israeli army systematically conducts airstrikes on various targets in Syria . Last year, Damascus , Aleppo, the port of Tartus and a research center in the city of Masyaf were subjected to shelling.

As Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, noted, the Syrian authorities have repeatedly turned to the secretary general of the organization because of the Israeli attacks, but there was no reaction from António Guterres . Moscow considers this unacceptable.

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Damascus airport out of order due to Israeli missile attack

[RIA Novosti] Two Syrian soldiers were killed, two were injured, and Damascus International Airport was out of order due to an Israeli missile attack, the Syrian Defense Ministry said.
Syria’s civil engineers are getting plenty of practice...
The Syrian state agency SANA previously reported that explosions were heard in the sky over the Syrian capital. The TV channel reported that Syrian air defense systems repel an Israeli attack in the skies over Damascus.

"Today (Monday - ed.) at approximately 02.00 am, the Israeli enemy carried out air aggression with missiles from the northeast of Lake Tiberias, striking at Damascus International Airport and its environs.

As a result of the aggression, two soldiers were killed, two more were injured, material damage has been caused, Damascus International Airport is out of order," the ministry said in a statement.

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The Times of Israel adds:
A military source said that around 2 a.m. (23:00 GMT), Israel carried out an air attack with "barrages of missiles, targeting Damascus International Airport and its surroundings."

Weapons are thought to be smuggled to Iran-allied groups 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 reported strikes come some two weeks since the last alleged sorties. 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.
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