Israel carries out military incursion into Syria’s Quneitra in the Golan
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In a separate report, Sana news agency says Israeli forces also kidnapped a man from the southwestern province.
Dozens of Israeli military vehicles have staged an incursion into Syria’s southwestern Quneitra province in the Golan Heights, local media have reported, in yet another breach of the country’s sovereignty.
Al-Ikhbariah TV said on Wednesday that a convoy of 30 vehicles entered the eastern Tel al-Ahmar area near the village of Ain Ziwan in Quneitra, where the Israeli army conducted a search operation.
Separately on Wednesday, the Sana news agency reported that Israeli forces reached near Bariqa village, also in Quneitra, and abducted a young Syrian man while he was tending his sheep. In another incident, the report added, three Israeli military vehicles temporarily penetrated the Abu Madharah farm.
Syria’s southern regions, including Quneitra, have long witnessed Israeli territorial violations, sowing fear, detaining civilians, erecting checkpoints and gates and destroying farmland.
But since the toppling of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, those have become more brazen, violent and frequent. Israel has launched multiple bombing raids on the country and also intervened last summer in an eruption of violence in Syria’s Suwayda, attacking Syrian forces under the pretext of protecting the Druze, and bombing Damascus.
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