Syria says Israel carried out airstrikes targeting the airport in Aleppo on Wednesday night. The official SANA news agency also reported a second airstrike southeast of Damascus. The attacks caused material damage; the report did not mention any casualties. Syria’s air defense system shot down some of the Israeli missiles, SANA reported.
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Four Israeli shells hit a runway of the International Aleppo Airport and warehouses in its vicinity, causing fire and explosions to erupt, likely to be due to the explosion of a batch of Iranian missiles, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied the attack.