Alwaght- At least five Syrian servicemen have been killed in an “Israeli air aggression” after midnight on Saturday, the state news agency SANA reported citing a military source.
“At approximately 0:45am this morning, the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression with rockets from the northeastern direction of Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee), targeting Damascus International Airport and some points south of Damascus,” a source told SANA.
While the Syrian air defenses “shot down a number” of missiles, the military acknowledged the deaths of at least five “military personnel and some material losses” on the ground.
The Israeli military neither confirms, nor denies its reported raids in line with its long-standing policy to not comment on operations conducted outside the country’s borders.
Over the past several weeks, Israel conducted multiple strikes against various targets in Syria, and its two remaining major airports in particular, as confirmed by the Russian Defense Ministry.
On August 31, a missile attack temporarily disabled Aleppo international airport and also caused damage to the one in Damascus. A week later, on September 6, another missile struck the runway of the Aleppo airport.
Israel has repeatedly targeted Syria with missiles, usually fired from Lebanese airspace or the occupied Golan Heights, wary of air defense systems provided by Russia to Damascus.
The Syrian government several times filed complaints to the UN, but no condemnation emerged for the Western-influnced community.
