Five people were wounded in the suspected Israeli air attack on Syria’s Aleppo airport earlier tonight, a monitoring group says.
The air attack – the second on a Syrian airport in two days – wounded five people and took place just hours after operations resumed after an earlier attack, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the AFP news agency.
Syria’s defence ministry confirmed the attack, which took place at about 11:35pm local time (20:35 GMT) on Saturday, and accused Israel of “targeting Aleppo International Airport, causing material damage to the airport and putting it out of service”.
The defence ministry said the attack “confirms the criminal approach of the Israeli occupation”, and accused Israel of committing “crimes against the Palestinian people”.
On Thursday, Israeli air attacks put Syria’s Damascus airport out of operation as well as Aleppo’s airport.
The Syrian observatory said that its sources confirmed Israel’s attacks on the airports in Damascus and Aleppo were “warning messages to prevent Iranian aircraft from landing at the airports”.
Israel rarely comments on its attacks against targets in Syria.
Source: AlJazeera
