BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike Sunday hit the worldwide airport within the Syrian capital of Damascus and put it out of fee, Syrian state media stated.

Israel has struck Syria’s Damascus and Aleppo worldwide airports a number of occasions because the onset of the Hamas-Israel battle in Gaza on Oct. 7. Israel has additionally struck components of western Syria after rocket hearth landed on the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

SANA, citing an unnamed navy official, stated Israel fired missiles from the route of the Golan Heights, placing Damascus Worldwide Airport and different areas within the Damascus countryside inflicting materials injury. There was no point out of casualties.

Britain-based opposition battle monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, stated the strikes got here simply hours after the airport resumed flights after a monthlong hiatus following a earlier Israeli strike.

Israel has carried out tons of of strikes on targets inside government-controlled components of war-torn Syria lately.

It doesn’t normally acknowledge its airstrikes on Syria. Nevertheless when it does, it says it’s focusing on Iranian-backed teams there which have backed President Bashar Assad’s authorities.