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<\/div>\nAll flights in and out of Syria have been cancelled, reports said (Representational)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Israeli strikes<\/a> targeted Syria’s two main airports on Thursday, Syrian state television said, in the first such attack since a Hamas assault on Israel at the weekend triggered fierce fighting.<\/p>\n “Israeli aggression targets Damascus and Aleppo airports,” the state television reported on the messaging app Telegram, without providing additional details.<\/p>\n According to reports, Israel’s airstrikes hit runways of Syria’s airports in the already war-ravaged cities, activating the country’s air defence systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n All flights in and out of Syria have been cancelled, the reports added.<\/p>\n Israeli strikes have repeatedly caused the grounding of flights at the airports in Aleppo and the capital Damascus, both of which are controlled by the government of war-torn Syria.<\/p>\n The latest strikes came as Hamas and Israel<\/a> traded heavy fire for a sixth day after hundreds of Hamas gunmen stormed across the Gaza<\/a> border into Israel on Saturday and killed more than 1,000 civilians.<\/p>\n They also came as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel, and hours after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, in a telephone call with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, called on Arab and Islamic countries to cooperate in confronting Israel.<\/p>\n During more than a decade of war in Syria, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes on its northern neighbour, primarily targeting Iran-backed forces and Hezbollah fighters as well as Syrian army positions.<\/p>\n Israel rarely comments on individual strikes it carries out on Syria, but it has repeatedly said it would not allow its arch-foe Iran, which supports Assad’s government, to expand its footprint there.<\/p>\n Iran, which backs Hamas, on Saturday celebrated Hamas’ assault on Israel, though it insisted it was not involved in it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n