DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (AP) – A suspected Israeli airstrike targetting Aleppo International Airport in Syria again tore multiple craters on its runway, satellite images analysed by The Associated Press showed yesterday.
The attack on Aleppo airport comes as Israel previously struck the airfield as part of an Israeli campaign to disrupt Iranian weapons transfers to the country.
Those attacks have continued despite ongoing political turmoil in Israel and as Iran’s nuclear programme edges closer to enriching weapons-grade levels of uranium as negotiations over it have fallen apart.
The satellite photos, taken early on Tuesday afternoon by Planet Labs PBC, show vehicles gathered on the airport’s single asphalt runway around the damage.
One spot, directly south of its passenger terminal, appeared to be a new, significant crater. It appeared the strike also targetted three patched areas earlier struck in suspected Israeli attacks in September.
The runway also was struck in late August at another spot, though that patch work appeared undamaged.
