Israeli airstrikes hit Syria’s Aleppo airport for the second time within three days, again knocking it out of service amid Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
“At about 11:35 pm on Saturday, October 14, 2023, the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial attack from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, west of Lattakia, targeting Aleppo International Airport, which led to material damage to the airport putting it out of service,” a military source told Syria’s SANA news agency.
“This new act of aggression affirms the criminal approach of the Israeli occupation entity, which is clearly embodied today in its continued crimes against the Palestinian people and the massacres it commits against innocent civilians, including women and children,” the source added.
On Thursday, Israeli airstrikes targeted both the Aleppo airport and the Damascus airport, putting them out of service. According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the Aleppo airport was struck again on Saturday, just a few hours after it resumed service.
The Saturday airstrikes mark at least the 27th time Israel has bombed Syria this year. Sources told SOHR that Israel’s purpose of targeting Syria’s airports amid its Gaza onslaught was as a warning to prevent Iranian military flights into the country.
The sources added that “the two targeted airports had not witnessed any arrival of the military shipments of the Iranian militias and that the Israeli targets came only to put the two airports out of service.”
Israel frames its bombing campaign as airstrikes against Iran and Hezbollah’s presence in the country, but the attacks frequently kill Syrians and damage civilian infrastructure.
“We, at [SOHR], condemn the Israeli attacks on public and private institutions which belong only to Syrian people, and stress that the military presence [of] Iranian forces and their proxy militias in Syrian must never be used as an excuse to violate Syria’s sovereignty,” SOHR said in a statement.
Over the past year, Syria’s airports have become a common target of Israeli airstrikes. According to SOHR, since August 2022, Israel has bombed the Aleppo and Damascus airports 10 times.
Syria will be torn asunder soon. Let’s see if they are more prepared than the Palestinians.
The Israeli government has cast off the last vestiges of morality. They are now on the road to provoking the ME war they have been lusting after ever since they occupied ancestral land and turned it into a shithole of hate.
Let them eat cake for now.
Plenty of hate was already there waiting for them.
What a dumb, empty response. Words.
They’re making even the Nazis, who tried to keep their death camps secret, look paragons. Old Ezra Sachin and Jake Sullivan have clarified the butter beyond dispute.
Lets see if Syria gives any people from Gaza citizenship and homes.
Let’s see if the US gives any people from Gaza citizenship and homes.
Yes-look what happened with the Somali refugees.We don’t have enough terrorists running around in the states.
Let’s see if Israel gives any people from Gaza citizenship and homes.
I would take your question seriously if wasn’t for your ignorance of the geographical location of Gaza Strip.
Not at all-Israel had taken in refugees from far away-Ethiopia for example,Yemen.Syria and Iran could do the same.
Syria, can’t take two million refugees because Israel is at war with Syria and there is no access to Syria from Gaza Strip. Oh well, at least I gave you a chance.
Where is Syria’ S-300 air defense system?
Syria’s S-300s are there, they just don’t work very well against the fancy, modern cruise missiles Israel is using.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200501-syria-says-russian-missile-defence-system-ineffective/
Syria needs S-400s, but Russia doesn’t have any to spare at the moment.
S300 will be useless if Israel launches full scale invasion. Short of Iran and Hezbollah jumping in, Syria is toast.
…And short of US support, Israel is toast…!
Well at least Iran will be nuked back into the Pre Cambrian age.
We’re getting closer by the hour to a serious regional war. Israeli strikes now are happening in a very different context than the previous 20-some this year.
It’s hard to know exactly what Iran’s and Hezbollah’s red lines are, but it’s obvious that there are red lines and that Israel is pushing closer to them. If Israel’s attacks on Gaza are followed by the invasion it seems to be preparing, It will be difficult for Iran and its proxies to avoid weighing in.
And not only Iran and its proxies.
Israel is having another orgasm.
Israeli airstrikes hit Syria’s Aleppo airport for the second time within three days, again knocking it out of service amid Israel’s bombardment of Gaza
right then. Israel has been attacking/bombing Syria for quite a while now.
long befoer any Gaza Palestinian actions.
why? why have they been doing that?
OK maybe because US has been stealing the oil right out of the Syrian ground and maybe that stolen oil is being routed directly to Israel. really where else would it go ?
Iraq has plenty of oil – where is Iraq’s oil going ?
no idea. but where is Syria’s oil going ?
goddamn enquiring minds want to know.
Why has Israel been bombing Syrian airports? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/8/why-israel-bombing-syria-airports-explainer
Syria’s oil: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/delta-crescent-energy-syrian-oil-391033
What about Aleppo? We bombed the city to rubble, we bombed the rubble to gravel, we bombed the gravel into pea gravel, what’s to know?
So…….1967 Hanoi ringed with SAM sites shooting F4 Phantoms down like ducks and Syria in 2023 can not take out Nuttyahoo bombing runs? talk about getting your heads out of the sand!
I saw photographs of the “damage” to the Aleppo Airport. Damage to the runway was a hole perhaps four feet across and perhaps 4 feet deep. Hard to tell from the photograph, but surprisingly, not very extensive, not a sizable crater. And it seemed to me that if you wanted to repair that damage, and I would guess it was to the runway, you could bring in a truckload of dirt, dump it in up to maybe a foot and 1/2 below the surface, tamp it down, and then pour concrete on top of it, and have it fixed in no time at all. And while I can’t be sure, the fact that Israel had to strike the runway yet again today, only several days after the previous strike, seems to support my conclusion, or at least lend them a bit of plausibility.
All of which makes me wonder why does Israel need to put the Aleppo Airport out of action and keep it out of action? I know that the article states that they want to prevent the landing of Iranian military aircraft. But what could those Iranian aircraft carry that would be so dangerous to Israeli security that they would need to keep the Aleppo and Damascus airports almost continually out of operation? And can the Israelis be so effective that they can prevent an Iranian aircraft from landing in the brief(?) time between the curing of the concrete and the next air strike?
I heard Alistair Crooke report on Judge Napolitano’s Judging Freedom podcast that Hezbollah has 150,000 missiles. That’s a lot of missiles. And I would guess that a substantial number of them are equipped with modern precision targeting, as that technology has been available for a while now from Iran. He also reports that Hezbollah has now put out of action all of the Israeli guard towers, radar units, and electronic equipment along the Lebanese-Israeli border, and that subsequently the Israelis have designated a portion of the area along that border a “no go zone”. This seems like it was done to open a breach in Israel’s “northern wall”. In preparation for what? Or perhaps just a warning? I can’t say what all of this means, but it doesn’t sound “helpful” in terms of Israeli interests.
Most specifically problematic for Israeli interests is that inventory of missiles with precision targeting. I mean Israel’s Iron Dome was overwhelmed in the south by what are reported to have been somewhere between 3000 and 5000 missiles. So even a fraction of Hezbollah’s missile inventory should be able to saturate any kind of anti-missile air defense that the Israelis possess, and after that the precision guided missiles should be able to do serious damage to all of Israel’s military bases, airfields, military production facilities, and civilian infrastructure. Both Iran and Hezbollah have stated that if Israel continues with the Gaza operation, they will enter the conflict. The Israelis for their part don’t seem inclined to dial it down, in fact, they seem in a berserker mood, undaunted and emotionally committed in a seemingly irreversible march to war.
Now Israel has nukes, so they have the deterrence that goes along with that, but Hezbollah has an “overwhelming” inventory of precision targeting missiles, with the capability to leave Israel virtually defenseless.
And then there’s the two US aircraft carriers hovering offshore of Lebanon and Israel, and a bunch of the 101st airborne recently arrived in Jordan.
Everybody is locked and loaded. Hmmmmm.
This could get out of hand in a hurry!
“This new act of aggression affirms the criminal approach of the Israeli occupation entity, which is clearly embodied today in its continued crimes against the Palestinian people and the massacres it commits against innocent civilians, including women and children,”
This is a great example of how to beat the instigators with their own game. If this kind of rhetoric could generate enough sympathy in Europe and the rest of the world, Biden would be forced to remove his white hat while standing by instead of stopping it with a phone call.
Hard evidence of a false flag are the recent attacks on Syrian airfields. They’ve done this for years, but with recent problems in
Gaza, sane leaders would not continue to provoke Syria and Iran. The rational explanation is this is to reboot the plan for “Greater Israel”, which had stalled when Putin saved Syria, and thus Lebanon and Iran, with his intervention in 2015. This moved Putin to the top of neocon regime change list, hence the resulting war in Ukraine, where the neocons failed.
I would not be surprised if Syria responded with missile and artillery fire, along with front line probes in the Golan from Iranian and Iraqi Shia militias. This would put Israel in a difficult position, and that is the plan! The US military will be ordered to bomb and help invade Lebanon and Syria, because of their “aggression”. American troops with their Kurd mercenaries, who already occupy the eastern third of
Syria, will join in this conquest.