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Syria: Israeli aggression targets Aleppo Airport vicinity, Damascus

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  • Source: Al Mayadeen Net
  • 31 Aug 2022 23:31
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Syrian military sources say that Israeli aggression targeted the vicinity of Aleppo International Airport and an attack in the skies over Damascus on Wednesday evening.

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The Syrian news agency SANA announced on Wednesday evening that several explosions were heard in the sky of the city of Aleppo, northern Syria.

Al Mayadeen correspondent confirmed that "the vicinity of Aleppo International Airport was targeted with a number of missiles," stressing that "the damage was limited to material."

A Syrian military source indicated that "the Israeli enemy targeted Aleppo International Airport with a missile strike, which caused material damage."

SANA also cited a military source as saying that the Syrian air defense forces repelled an Israeli air force missile attack in the skies over Damascus and its suburbs.

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🇸🇾| Explosions hear in the Al-Nairab Military Airport in #Aleppo. #Syria #سوريا #حلب pic.twitter.com/DVutjm9Vkw

— Unit 84 (@IntelPasha) August 31, 2022

On August 25, SANA news agency confirmed that the Syrian air defenses engaged hostile targets in the surroundings of the cities of Hama and Tartous.

Sputnik reported that violent explosions were sounded in the vicinity of the Masyaf area in the western countryside of the Hama governorate caused by the Syrian air defenses' response to Israeli aggression in the area.

On August 14, SANA confirmed Sunday that Syrian air defenses were intercepting hostile targets in the sky of Tartus and in the air of the Qalamoun mountain range near the Lebanese border.

Our correspondent added that the Syrian air defenses engaged Israeli missiles targeting points in the vicinity of Tartus, noting that the aggression was carried out by Israeli warplanes from over Lebanese territory.

In a statement, a military source said that "the Israeli enemy carried out at 20:50 today a missile aggression, targeting some points in Damascus countryside using southeastern Beirut’s air space coincided with another one targeting some points southern Tartous using the Mediterranean air space."

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