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The satellite image shows the damage at Aleppo airport
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Several Israeli missiles caused damage to the runway at Aleppo airport in the evening, Syrian army sources said.
There was initially no information about the dead or injured.
After the attack, air traffic was halted.
The Syrian Air Force shot down several rockets, the Syrian news agency SANA reported.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Israel also destroyed warehouses belonging to militias loyal to Iran in the attack next to the runway.
Israel wants to prevent Iran and its allied militias from expanding their military influence in Syria.
Israel therefore regularly bombs targets in the neighboring country.
Alongside Russia, Iran is the Syrian government's most important ally in the civil war.
Damascus was also recently attacked
Activists at the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that violent explosions shook the region.
The airport had already become the target of Israeli attacks a week ago.
In June, air traffic in the Syrian capital Damascus was temporarily suspended as a result of an Israeli attack.
There, too, Israel had attacked warehouses belonging to militias loyal to Iran.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army does not comment on foreign media reports.
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