The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a letter to the UN and the Security Council that at approximately 20:00 yesterday, Wednesday, August 31, 2022, Israel launched an air aggression against the Aleppo International Commercial Airport, launching a missile strike. resulting in serious damage to the runway, putting it out of action, as well as the complete destruction of the navigation equipment station and its equipment and its incapacitation.

And she pointed out in a report by the Syrian news agency SANA that “Israeli warplanes also carried out, around 21:18 pm yesterday, Wednesday, August 31, 2022, an air attack with several rockets from the direction of Lake Tiberias in the north of occupied Palestine, hitting some points south of occupied Palestine. East of Damascus, including Damascus International Airport, where this aggression resulted in material losses, including the destruction of the navigation aids station and the range finder at Damascus International Airport, all of which were out of service.

The Foreign Ministry stressed that Syria “draws the attention of the General Secretariat that this is not the first time that the Israeli occupying forces have attacked public commercial and civilian facilities, as well as air and sea ports in Syria, endangering shipping, commercial and civil air and maritime transport, and the life and safety of civilians.”

And she announced that “The General Civil Aviation Organization of the Syrian Arab Republic will file a formal complaint with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to take the necessary measures in accordance with its rules and obligations in the face of Israeli aggression on the international airports of Damascus and Aleppo, on the basis of legal norms in the area of ​​criminalization of attacks on civil airports and aviation rights in accordance with the charters of international law, in particular the Charter of the United Nations, the Chicago Convention and its annexes on aviation safety. civil aviation, the 1971 Montreal Convention, and international humanitarian law.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that “Syria reserves the full right to hold the Israeli occupation authorities accountable and bear all legal, moral, political and financial responsibility for the deliberate attack on the international airports of Damascus and Aleppo and for endangering civilian objects and the lives of civilians. persons at risk.” Fulfilling the bare minimum of its mandates under the Charter in the maintenance of international peace and security, and condemning these Israeli acts of aggression.