Source: agencies
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published this morning (Saturday) the first pictures of the bombing of the international airport in Damascus, and reported that its teams have been working since yesterday to repair the damage caused by an attack attributed to Israel, according to what was published by the Israeli Ynet website.
According to the report, the northern runway, the navigation lights on the runway, the communications tower, passenger terminals, three hangars and warehouses were bombed in the attack. The damaged passenger terminals, according to the observatory, are used by secret personalities when they come to Damascus, and they are senior military personnel from Iran and Hezbollah. The pictures published by the observatory show the massive destruction inflicted on these halls.
The report claimed that the halls are also used for temporary storage of weapons coming from Iran. By the way, these are old airport halls, which were used in the past for air transportation of passengers from Syria to Saudi Arabia for the purpose of the pilgrimage to Mecca.
It is reported that Iran and Hezbollah use civilian flights to Damascus and Beirut to smuggle advanced military materials to Hezbollah, related, among other things, to the production of military weapons.
These are relatively small components so innocent in appearance and thus easy to hide in luggage that goes up for a civilian flight.
The use of civilian flights is intended to make it difficult for intelligence agencies in Israel and the West to monitor the smuggling route between Iran and Hezbollah.
Yesterday, the Syrian Ministry of Transport announced that the reason for stopping activity at Damascus Airport was technical failures, but satellite images from the airport showed small craters as a result of an air attack attributed by the Syrian regime to Israel.
According to the Syrian Observatory, since the attack, the teams have been working to repair the damage caused by the attack.
