Israeli strikes on Syrian 資本/首都's airport kill four: 監視する

Israel has struck the Damascus International Airport, pictured on October 1, 2020, twice in less than seven months

イスラエル has struck the Damascus International Airport, pictured on October 1, 2020, twice in いっそう少なく than seven months

Israeli ミサイル strikes on the Syrian 資本/首都's airport Monday killed four people 含むing two 兵士s and の近くにd the 滑走路s for several hours, a 権利s 監視する said.

This is the second time in いっそう少なく than seven months that イスラエル has 攻撃する,衝突する Damascus International Airport -- where Iranian-支援するd 武装した groups and Lebanese Hezbollah 闘士,戦闘機s are 現在の.

The attack around 2:00 am (2300 GMT) put the airport out of service until 9:00 am, Syria's 明言する/公表する news 機関 SANA and 公式の/役人s said.

イスラエル carried out the strike with "一斉射撃,(質問などの)連発/ダムs of ミサイルs 的ing Damascus International Airport and its surroundings", a 軍の source told SANA, which 報告(する)/憶測d that two Syrian 兵士s were killed and two others 負傷させるd.

But the Britain-based 監視するing group Syrian 観測所 for Human 権利s, which relies on a wide 網状組織 of sources on the ground in Syria, said "four 闘士,戦闘機s 含むing two Syrian 兵士s were killed".

The ミサイルs also 攻撃する,衝突する "positions for Hezbollah and プロの/賛成の-Iranian groups inside the airport and its surroundings, 含むing a 武器s 倉庫/問屋", said Rami Abdel Rahman, 長,率いる of the 観測所.

The Syrian foreign 省 非難するd the strike in a 声明, calling on the UN to "take 緊急の 対策 to punish those responsible".

It 述べるd the strike as "nothing more than another episode of Israeli 罪,犯罪s", decrying the "的ing of Syria and its people".

Flights later 再開するd.

"空気/公表する traffic has returned" on one of the 滑走路s, "while the 過程 of 修理ing the second 滑走路 continues," 輸送(する) 省 公式の/役人 Suleiman Khalil told AFP.

- '執拗な 軍の 活動/戦闘' -

Syria airport attack

Syria airport attack

Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, イスラエル has carried out hundreds of 空気/公表する strikes against its 隣人, 的ing 政府 軍隊/機動隊s 同様に as 連合した Iran-支援するd 軍隊s and 闘士,戦闘機s from Lebanon's Shiite 交戦的な group Hezbollah.

The Israeli army, which said Monday that "it does not comment on foreign 報告(する)/憶測s ", has 繰り返して said it will not 許す its arch 敵 Iran to 伸び(る) a foothold in Syria.

イスラエル's hawkish 退役軍人 Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in again on Thursday as 長,率いる of what 分析家s call the most 右翼 政府 in イスラエル's history.

A day earlier, the 長,率いる of the イスラエル 弁護 軍隊s 操作/手術s Directorate, Major General Oded Basiuk, 現在のd the 軍の's "操作の 見通し" for 2023, where he said that the 軍隊 "will not 受託する Hezbollah 2.0 in Syria", the army said on Twitter.

"Our course of 活動/戦闘 in Syria is an example of how continuous and 執拗な 軍の 活動/戦闘 leads to 形態/調整ing and 影響(力)ing the entire 地域," Basiuk 追加するd.

The に引き続いて day, イスラエル's 軍の 長,指導者 Aviv Kohavi gave a speech in which he 公式文書,認めるd "the armies Iran is trying to 設立する throughout the Middle East" as one of the facets of Tehran's 脅し to イスラエル.

"The most important thing to us is the entrenchment, not just through proxies, but through 武器, 組織/基盤/下部構造, the Iranians are trying to 始める,決める up in the area 近づく us, まず第一に/本来 in the Syria-Lebanon 地域", Kohavi said.

- More than a 10年間 of war -

The airport is in a 地域 southeast of Damascus where Iran-支援するd groups, 含むing Hezbollah, 定期的に operate.

The last time the airport was out of service was in June 2022 -- also after an Israeli ミサイル strike.

The 滑走路, 支配(する)/統制する tower, three hangars, 倉庫/問屋s and 歓迎会 rooms were 不正に 損失d in that attack -- 軍隊ing the airport to の近くに for about two weeks and flights to be 一時停止するd.

Just as in Monday's attack, the 観測所 said at the time that the strikes had 的d nearby 倉庫/問屋s used as 武器s 倉庫・駅s by Iran and Hezbollah.

The 衝突 in Syria started with the 残虐な repression of 平和的な 抗議するs and 増大するd to pull in foreign 力/強力にするs and 全世界の jihadists.

About half a million people have been killed, and the 衝突 has 軍隊d around half of the country's pre-war 全住民 from their homes.

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