Middle East | Three died in an airstrike on Aleppo airport, earthquake relief flights were diverted to new routes

According to Syrian state media, Israel was behind the attack. Aleppo airport was closed to traffic after the attack.

7.3. 10:26 a.m | Updated 1:26

Israel carried out attacks on Syria’s Aleppo airport on Tuesday morning, according to Syrian state media, according to AFP and Reuters. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, three people died in the attacks and the airport was closed to traffic.

According to the organization, one of the dead is a Syrian officer. The nationality of the other two dead was not known.

According to the Syrian state-owned news agency Sana, the country’s air defense detected missiles coming from the Mediterranean Sea from the west of the coastal city of Latakia shortly after 2 am.

Syria according to the Ministry of Transport, the Aleppo airport was so badly damaged in the attack that relief flights from last month’s earthquake have had to be moved to other routes to Damascus and Latakia.

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More than 80 aid flights have arrived in Aleppo after a devastating earthquake struck Syria and Turkey in early February, a representative of the Ministry of Transport Suleiman Khalil told AFP.

“Receiving aid flights is no longer possible until the damage is repaired,” Khalil said.

Israel has increased strikes on Syrian airfields since last year to counter Iranian air deliveries to Syria and Lebanon.

The Israeli army has not commented on the latest attack. Its reserve military pilots often lead Israeli airstrikes To Syria and the Gaza Strip.

There are now widespread demonstrations in Israel against the government’s reforms, which have also spread to the Air Force Reserve. Some of the pilots have said that they are not going to participate in exercises or operations.

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