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Syria halts Damascus airport flights after Israeli strikes
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DAMASCUS, 11 June 2022, (TON): The government said “all flights to and from Syria’s capital were halted, after Israeli air strikes wounded at least one civilian and reportedly caused damage to an airport runway.”
Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes against its neighbor, targeting government troops as well as allied Iran-backed forces and fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah, but rarely have such attacks caused major flight disruptions.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said “the Israeli strike hit three arms depots for Iran-backed militiamen inside the airport, adding that the northern runway at the facility was damaged as was the observation tower.”
Syria’s transport ministry later announced the suspension of incoming and outgoing flights through Damascus International Airport as a result of technical disruptions.
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