Israeli airstrikes again targeted Syria’s Damascus airport on Sunday, putting it out of service, Syria’s SANA news agency reported.
“At approximately 4:50 on Sunday afternoon, the Zionist enemy carried out an air aggression with missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting Damascus International Airport and some points in Damascus countryside,” a military source told SANA.
Israel began frequently targeting Syria’s airports in Damascus and Aleppo last summer, but the attacks have ramped up since the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel and the start of Israel’s onslaught in Gaza.
Rudaw reported on Saturday that the Damascus airport was set to resume service after being inoperable for over a month due to Israeli airstrikes in October. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said flights resumed Sunday morning, just hours before Israel bombed the airport and knocked it out of service again.
Israeli officials have justified Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s airports by claiming they receive Iranian weapons shipments. But the airports are also used by civilians. Earlier this year, Israeli airstrikes on the Aleppo airport disrupted aid deliveries following a devastating earthquake that killed thousands of Syrians.
Israel frames its broader bombing campaign in Syria as operations against Iran and Hezbollah’s presence in the country, although the airstrikes frequently kill Syrians and damage civilian infrastructure. Before October 7, Israel bombed Syria at least 25 times this year.
Syria, another country that does not care about it citizens.
Either, Tim, you are an undercover agent for the enemies of Israel, employing vile spewing as a tactic for generating hatred for the Zionist state, or you are as dumb as a box of unusually stupid rocks and have no idea that you are turning a bit more of the world against that state with every comment you post.
If Hamas and Iran aren’t paying you, you’re serving their cause for free.
Israeli officials have justified Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s airports by claiming they receive Iranian weapons shipments.
So, if Syria bombed Israel repeatedly for receiving weapons shipments from the US, would you claim Israel doesn’t care about its citizens?
i have friends from Syria here in the US – they tell me that it was a nice place to live before uncle sam decided to try and do away with Syrian President Assad.
No nice country left unharmed.
Israel bombing a neighboring country is almost not news worthy.
What would be newsworthy is shooting down the attackers..
but that never seems to happen, for some reason
Syria seems to have never used the S-300’s supplied to them from Russia..
Dear Israel, as you sow, so shall you reap.
Israel is so nice. Although it’s busy committing genocide, it always finds enough kindness in its heart to disable a civilian airport in a starving country next door. No wonder we support Israel so much. It’s a shining example, but it’s not as exceptional as our country because we support it the most.
Just like the Russia’s genocide in Ukraine you so much support.
“Russian genocide”? Are you serious? Russia ATTACKED the nation committing genocide!
The Cowards…!
Israel officials are quite truthful in this regard.
Israeli officials have justified Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s airports by claiming they receive Iranian weapons shipments.
right then. imagine the outrage if an Arab or a Persian country should bomb Israel’s airports since they receive US weapons shipments.
Israel justifies blah blah. Just a bunch of assholes in DC and Tel Aviv doing their thing before the planetary audience.
check this out =
“I have Jared Kushner in my pocket”
….. Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman
wut. LOL