The airport has been one of many primary channels for the circulation of assist into the nation after the Feb. 6 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing over 50,000 people, together with greater than 6,000 in Syria.
On March 7, an Israeli airstrike put the airport out of service for a number of days and flights have been rerouted to 2 different airports within the war-torn nation till the injury was mounted.
Israel has carried out a whole lot of strikes on targets inside government-controlled components of Syria in recent times, together with assaults on the Damascus and Aleppo airports, however it hardly ever acknowledges or discusses the operations.
Israel has acknowledged, nonetheless, that it targets bases of Iran-allied militant teams, reminiscent of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which has despatched 1000’s of fighters to help Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces.
Israel has focused airports and seaports within the government-held components of Syria in an obvious try to stop arms shipments from Iran to militant teams backed by Tehran, together with Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
