An Israeli missile attack on Syria’s Aleppo airport has damaged the runway and taken it out of service, SANA reported.
An Israeli air attack on Aleppo airport in Syria’s north has damaged the runway and taken it out of service, the Syrian state media said quoting a military source in the wake of the second reported attack on the airport in less than a week.
The Israel missile attack was launched from the Mediterranean Sea, west of the coastal city of Latakia, at 8:16pm local time (17:16 GMT), the SANA news agency said on Tuesday.
Syrian air defences intercepted Israeli missiles, downing several of them, the SANA said.
It made no mention of casualties but only reported “material damage”.
The United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a vast network of sources on the ground for its information, the air raid also destroyed warehouses belonging to Iran-backed fighters.
Al Jazeera could not independently verify the claims of the attacks, but Israel has carried out hundreds of attacks inside Syria since 2011.
The Aleppo airport suffered material damage in Israeli missile attacks on August 31, according to the Syrian state media.
Syria’s foreign minister last week said the attack “completely destroyed the navigation station with its equipment”.
Israel has carried out hundreds of attacks on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria since the 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations. Israel has acknowledged, however, that it targets bases of Iran-allied fighter groups such as Hezbollah.
In June, Israeli air raids temporarily put Damascus International Airport out of commission.