Israel has bombed this Tuesday, at dawn, the international airport of Aleppo, in Syria, leaving it out of service. The Damascus government says it has intercepted several of the missiles launched from the Mediterranean, which has not prevented further damage to the airstrip. All flights are being diverted to Damascus and Latakia airports. Many of them are related to humanitarian aid to the victims of the earthquake a month ago, which caused six thousand deaths in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.
Six months ago, the Israeli Air Force already put the Aleppine airport out of service, by the same procedure. This same year there have been three other bombardments, the last of which, against a residential block in Damascus, caused at least five deaths last month, according to Syrian sources.
The airport in the economic capital of northern Syria has received dozens of humanitarian flights from countries such as Russia, Egypt, the Emirates or Iran after the earthquake. Also from Saudi Arabia, which had not flown to Syria since the start of the civil war, in 2012.
Israel does not comment on this type of aggression, but in the past it has justified them as necessary to stop the penetration of Iranian weapons into Syria. The ultimate recipient is often Hezbollah, the Shiite militia that was instrumental in Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon and whose rocket arsenal is seen as a threat by Tel Aviv.
