ISRAELI forces struck Aleppo airport early today, putting it out of service, in the latest attack on Syria by Tel Aviv’s military.

The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (Sana) reported that Israel “carried out an air attack from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, west of Latakia, targeting Aleppo international airport.”

Sana said the strike “caused material damage” to the airport, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

Officials in Israel did not comment, but the country has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, including the airports of Aleppo and the capital Damascus.

However, Israel has acknowledged targeting bases that it claims are used by Iran-allied militant groups such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters to support President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

Aleppo, which has suffered widespread destruction in Syria’s civil war, was again heavily damaged by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria last month.

Today’s Israeli attack is likely to impede the delivery of humanitarian aid to the thousands of people made homeless by the disaster.

On February 19, Israeli air attacks targeted residential areas of Damascus, killing at least five people and wounding 15.