An Israeli airstrike targeted the airport of Aleppo, a city in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) announced, a few days after similar strikes on the airports of Aleppo and Damascus.
“An Israeli airstrike coming from the sea hit the Aleppo airport,” Rami Abdel Rahmane, director of the OSDH, told AFP.
Syrian state media also confirmed the strike, with state television reporting an “Israeli aggression targeting Aleppo international airport.”
Israeli raids had already targeted the airports of the Syrian capital Damascus and Aleppo on Thursday, putting them out of service, according to official media.
Saturday’s strikes come hours after Aleppo’s airport reopened, knocking it out of service again, according to OSDH, a UK-based NGO with an extensive network of sources in Syria.
Tuesday, for the first time after the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas against Israel on October 7, the Israeli army announced that it had fired shells into Syria from the Golan Heights in response to “fire” of projectiles on this territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian territory since the start of the war there in 2011.
Its air force notably targeted forces supported by Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah, allies of Damascus and sworn enemies of Israel, as well as the Syrian army.
The airports of Damascus and Aleppo have already been targeted several times.
Israel, Syria’s neighbor, rarely comments on strikes in Syria, but says it wants to prevent Iran from establishing itself on its doorstep.