The Hebrew state attacked the country’s main airport hub on Monday January 2. Israel regularly leads air attacks against his neighbor.
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Damascus international airport was put out of service Monday January 2 by Israeli strikes which left four dead, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH). “Four fighters, including two Syrian soldiers, were killed by the Israeli bombing,” said Rami Abdul Rahman, the head of the OSDH, an organization based in the United Kingdom. He was unable to specify the nationality of the other two killed.
The official Syrian agency Sana, citing a military source, said that two soldiers of the Syrian army had perished in the attack, which took place Monday around 2 am.
According to Rami Abdul Rahman, this attack targeted “hezbollah positions and pro-Iranian groups in the airport and its surroundings, including a arms depot”.
The Hebrew State has led hundreds of air strikes to its neighbor since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, targeting not only positions of the Syrian army but also pro-Iranian forces and Lebanese Hezbollah .
“We will not accept a Hezbollah 2.0 in Syria”
On December 28, the head of the Israeli army operations department, the general of division Oded Basiuk, had mentioned these raids in Syria by presenting his operational prospects for 2023.
“We see that our action plan in Syria is an example of how a continuous and persistent military action leads to shaping and influencing the whole region,” tweeted Tsahal by accounting for the presentation of General Basiuk . “We will not accept a Hezbollah 2.0 in Syria,” added the Israeli army.
On June 10 before dawn, Israeli aviation had already bombed the airport located in the south of the Syrian capital, putting the off -service landing slopes for almost two weeks.
Aleppo airport, the second largest in the country, had also had to close several days during September, following Israeli raids.