Israel has struck Syria's Damascus and Aleppo international airports several times since the start of the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza on October 7. Israel has also struck areas in western Syria, after rockets fell on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Smoke rises from a site in Damascus following an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria on November 26, 2023. Photo: Times of Israel
Syria's SANA news agency quoted an unnamed military official as saying that Israel fired missiles from the direction of the Golan Heights, hitting Damascus International Airport and other areas in the Damascus countryside, causing material damage. There was no mention of casualties.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights , a UK-based war monitor, said the attacks came just hours after the airport resumed flights following a month-long hiatus following a previous Israeli strike.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government- controlled areas of Syria in recent years. It does not usually acknowledge airstrikes in Syria. When it does, however, Israel says it is targeting Iranian-backed groups there.
Israel and Syria are at odds over the Golan Heights, an internationally recognised Syrian territory occupied by Israel. Graphic photo: AJ
In another development that appears to indicate Israel is stepping up its attacks following a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians over the weekend.
Five Palestinians were killed in the rebel stronghold of Jenin, while three others were killed in separate areas of the West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
The Israeli military said it killed five Palestinian militants in a gun battle during an operation in the Jenin refugee camp, where it was arresting a Palestinian suspected of killing an Israeli father and son at a West Bank car wash earlier this year.
Violence in the West Bank has increased in the weeks since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. Israeli forces have killed dozens of Palestinians and arrested hundreds in the West Bank.
Bui Huy (according to AFP, AP, AJ)
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