Damascus - The Israeli regime attacked Damascus International Airport with missiles Saturday night, Syrian regime media said, adding that air defences shot down some of them. A war monitoring group said the attack targeted an arms depot for Iranian forces or Lebanon’s Hezbollah group.
Explosions during the attack were heard across Damascus. The regime’s news agency SANA posted pictures showing what appeared to be air defences firing into the air.
Regime media quoted an unidentified military official as reporting the attack but gave no further details.
Rami Abdul Rahman who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the attack targeted an arms depot near the airport where new weapons recently arrived for the Iranians or Lebanon’s Hezbollah group. The monitoring group had no immediate word on casualties, saying the strike did cause material damage.
The Israeli regime rarely acknowledges attacks inside Syria, but has said it would use military action to prevent weapons transfers to its enemies.
Earlier this month, an Israeli regime official said it has struck over 200 Iranian targets in Syria over the past 18 months.
Israel is widely believed to have been behind a series of air strikes mainly targeting Iranian and Hezbollah forces in Syria that have joined the country’s war fighting alongside the regime. It rarely confirms the attacks.
An Israeli regime official said earlier this month that the targets were connected to Iran’s elite Al Quds force and included air force components, support infrastructure, and weapons storage and manufacturing facilities.
US and Israeli regime officials have said Iran and Hezbollah should end their armed presence in Syria.
