In a significant development this Sunday morning, both Damascus and Aleppo international airports have been rendered non-operational due to Israeli airstrikes.
In response to this, air traffic has been redirected to Latakia Airport.
A Syrian military source reported, “Around 5:25 AM today, the Israeli enemy simultaneously launched an aerial assault with missile volleys from the direction of the Mediterranean west of Latakia and from the occupied Syrian Golan targeting both Damascus and Aleppo international airports.
This led to the martyrdom of a civilian worker at the Damascus airport, the injury of another, and significant damages to the runways of both airports, resulting in their shutdown.”
Local residents south of the capital, Damascus, conveyed that they heard multiple explosions followed by Syrian army ground-to-air defenses intercepting missiles coming from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan.
Likewise, residents in the city of Aleppo informed the German News Agency (DPA) about hearing “four loud explosions at the outskirts of the eastern city, in the vicinity of the airport.”
In the wake of these events, the Syrian Ministry of Transportation has officially announced the rerouting of scheduled flights, both incoming and outgoing, from Damascus and Aleppo airports to Latakia International Airport.
Israeli warplanes struck targets across Gaza overnight and into Sunday, as well as two airports in Syria and a mosque in the occupied West Bank allegedly used by militants, as the two-week-old war with Hamas threatened to spiral into a broader conflict.
Israel traded fire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group on a near-daily basis since the war began, and tensions are soaring in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces have battled militants in refugee camps and carried out two airstrikes in recent days.
