Damascus. The airport. File photoCAiro, Jun 11The Damascus airport runway and lighting were disabled after the strike by the Israeli Air Force, the building of one of the terminals was damaged, the Syrian Ministry of Transport said on Saturday night. On Friday morning, the Syrian Ministry of Defense said that Israel fired missiles at a number of objects south of Damascus. Air defense forces are said to have shot down most of the missiles, and one civilian was injured in the Israeli attack. After that, the arrival of flights to the international airport of the Syrian capital of Damascus and departures from it were suspended. locations, along with navigation lighting,» the agency said in a statement, quoted by radio station Shams FM.
Also, as a result of the attack, the building of the second terminal of the airport was damaged. «At the moment, our specialists are working to eliminate the consequences of the attack and repair what was damaged as a result of the attack. Immediately after the repair and flight safety checks, the work of the air harbor will be resumed,» they said. Ministry. The private Syrian airline Cham Wings Airlines previously reported that all its flights were redirected from Damascus airport to Aleppo in the north of the country. The Israeli military has repeatedly attacked targets in Syria, explaining their actions by the desire to prevent modern weapons from falling into the hands of enemies. First of all, we are talking about the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, which is fighting in the region on the side of Bashar al-Assad and is controlled by Tehran. Damascus has repeatedly appealed to the UN Security Council demanding to put pressure on Tel Aviv so that they stop systematically violating Syrian sovereignty.
The Russian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Israeli air strike on the airport in Damascus