Syria's ally Russia on Monday condemned strikes on Damascus international airport it attributed to Israel, describing them as provocative and dangerous.
Maria Zakharova © Mena Today
Syria's ally Russia on Monday condemned strikes on Damascus international airport it attributed to Israel, describing them as provocative and dangerous.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Sunday's strikes could aggravate tensions in the region, already inflamed by the Gaza war.
"We strongly condemn Israel's latest provocative attack on an important Syrian civilian infrastructure facility," Zakharova said in a statement.
"We are convinced that such a vicious practice is fraught with extremely dangerous consequences, especially in the context of a sharp aggravation of the situation in the zone of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the resulting increase in regional tension."
The Syrian army and a pro-government newspaper said Sunday's "Israeli" air strikes put Damascus airport out of service and forced incoming flights to be diverted elsewhere.
The Damascus airport serves as a base for transporting military equipment to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
On a road in Gaza City's Zeitoun district, Palestinian resident Assem Dawla loaded mattresses and bags onto a truck as concrete yellow blocks marking the edge of Israel's expanding military zone stood amid the rubble nearby.
Syria is seeking to reach a security agreement with Israel, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview with Al Jazeera on Sunday.
An Israeli airstrike on Sunday killed a senior officer of the Hamas-run Palestinian internal security service in the Gaza Strip and an associate as they travelled in a vehicle through Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, medics and police officials said.
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