Guterres, concerned about the attack on the Aleppo airport, calls for restraint and to avoid a new escalation

MADRID, 8 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has called for "maximum restraint" and "avoid a new escalation", after the attack allegedly perpetrated by the Israeli Army against the Aleppo airport, which has resulted in the lives of three people. and has stopped its activity.

Guterres, who has expressed concern about the attacks on Syrian territory, has warned that "any miscalculation could give rise to a broader conflict in an already unstable region."

Likewise, the Secretary General, through the deputy spokesman Farhan Haq, has indicated that "humanitarian access through Syria, especially after the devastating earthquakes, must be protected and expanded, not threatened."

However, Guterres recalled that directing attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure is "strictly" prohibited by International Humanitarian Law.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has detailed that at least three people have died, including a military officer, after Israeli forces attacked the Aleppo airport with several missiles, three of which hit their target and destroyed the runway. landing.

Hours earlier, the Syrian state agency, SANA, reported that Israel had carried out an "air aggression" early Tuesday morning from positions in the Mediterranean Sea. The Syrian authorities stated that the attack had caused "material damage" at the airport, which had been put "out of service", without commenting on the extent of the material damage to the facilities.

Aleppo airport has received in recent weeks numerous flights with international aid for those affected by the earthquakes on February 6 in southern Turkey, near the border with Syria, which have left more than 50,000 dead in both countries, including about 6,000 in the Arab country.

Israel generically recognizes attacks in Syria arguing that it acts to prevent the establishment of Iranian bases in the country and the shipment of weapons to the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah by the Iranian authorities, which support Damascus within the framework of the war that broke out in 2011.