Illustrative image. Source: the Syrian Ministry of Transport.
On September 9, Aleppo International Airport in northern Syria resumed operations, just a few days after being the target of an Israeli aerial attack.
In a brief statement, the Syrian Ministry of Transport announced that all carriers can now resume flights from and to the airport.
“The cadres of the General Organization of Civil Aviation, in cooperation with our national companies, repaired the damage caused by the Israeli aggression that targeted the airport last Tuesday [September 6] night,” the statement reads.
The Israeli aerial attack, which was launched by several fighter jets from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, inflicted heavy damage on the airport’s main runway. Recently-released satellite images showed three large craters on the runway. Despite the scale of the attack, no causalities were reported.
The Syrian Forgiven Ministry said that the Israeli attack on Aleppo airport threatened the safety of civilian aviation over Syria.
This was not the first such attack by Israel, however. Exactly a week earlier, a large-scale aerial attack targeted the airports of Aleppo and Damascus. The attack destroyed civilian navigation equipment in both airports. However, only Aleppo was placed out of service for around a day as a result of the attack.
Israel’s recent attacks on Syrian airports were reportedly meant to stop Iranian weapons shipments meant for Hezbollah in Lebanon. Earlier this year, the Israeli military accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of smuggling advanced weapons to Syria aboard civilian airliners.
War-torn Syria has been refraining from responding to Israel’s never-ending attacks in an attempt to avoid a full-blown military confrontation.
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