#Israel #Palestine #Syria Moment when the Damascus airport was attacked by the Israeli Air Force today. pic.twitter.com/bTuK2rg0n6
— The National Independent (@NationalIndNews) October 12, 2023
Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 12:13pm on 12 Oct 2023,Thursday International
Israeli airstrikes targeted Syria's two main airports in Damascus and Aleppo on Thursday, according to Syrian state media. This marks the first such strikes since the weekend Hamas assault on Israel triggered heavy fighting. Israel has repeatedly grounded flights at the airports controlled by the Syrian government during more than a decade of conflict. The latest strikes came as Hamas and Israel continued trading fire for the sixth day after Hamas militants killed over 1,000 Israeli civilians. They also occurred as U.S. Secretary of State Blinken visited Israel. Israel rarely comments on individual strikes it carries out on Syria, but it has repeatedly said it would not allow its arch-foe Iran, which supports Assad's government, to expand its footprint there. Iran, which backs Hamas, on Saturday celebrated Hamas' assault on Israel, though it insisted it was not involved in it.
