Syria: Israeli Missiles Strike Damascus Airport
The Syrian state news agency said Israeli warplanes fired a number of missiles toward the Damascus area on Friday, triggering Syrian air defenses that shot down most of them.
Syrian state media broadcast footage of what it said were the air defenses firing, with bright lights seen shooting across the night sky. Explosions were heard in one of the videos.
According to SANA, "eight enemy targets spotted in the skies of Damascus exploded." The agency also quoted a source from Syria's Transportation Ministry as saying that business in airport would carry on as usual.
As Haaretz reports, there was no immediate word from Israel, which rarely comments on such attacks. Israel is widely believed to have been behind a series of airstrikes in Syria that have mainly targeted Iranian and Hezbollah forces.