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Syria’s Aleppo airport reopens following repairs after alleged Israeli strikes
2022-09-12
[IsraelTimes] Flights resumed from Aleppo on Friday after repairs were carried out on Syria’s second-largest airport following an air strike earlier this week blamed on Israel.

The first civilian flight landed in more than 72 hours.

Damage to the main runway in Tuesday’s raid had put the airport out of service, but the transport ministry said Friday repairs had been completed.

The first incoming flight, from Kuwait, landed at 8:30 p.m. local time (1730 GMT), according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, a Britannia-based watchdog of unclear funding.

There were no reports of injuries in the strike, the second to hit the airport in just a week.

Since civil war erupted in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes against its northern neighbor, targeting government troops as well as allied Iran-backed forces and Hezbollah fighters.

As a rule, Israel’s military does not comment on specific strikes in Syria, but has admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country. It says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups, chief among them Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.
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