Four soldiers were killed Monday morning, January 2, during Israeli strikes on Damascus airport, which was rendered out of service.
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LOn Monday, January 2, at around 2 a.m. (2300 GMT), an Israeli strike hit the airport in Damascus, Syria, killing four people, including two Syrian soldiers, according to the official Sana agency. “The Israeli enemy carried out an aerial assault using a barrage of missiles, targeting Damascus International Airport and its surroundings”, and causing “the death of two soldiers, the wounding of two others” and material damage, the agency said, citing a Syrian military source. The airport is “out of service”, she added.
“Four fighters, including two Syrian soldiers, were killed by the Israeli bombardment,” Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the OSDH, a UK-based organization, later told Agence France-Presse (AFP). United. He was unable to specify the nationality of the other two killed.
The second attack in six months
According to Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based organization, the Israeli attack targeted “positions of Hezbollah and pro-Iranian groups in the airport and its surroundings , including an arms depot”.
Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in its neighbor, targeting positions of the Syrian army, pro-Iranian forces and Lebanese Hezbollah. The Jewish state rarely comments on its strikes against Syria, but says it will not allow Iran to expand its influence in Syria. These strikes often take place near Damascus airport, which had already been taken out of service by an attack on June 10, 2022.