(MENAFN- Arab News) At least nine Syrians, including a child, were executed by regime forces at a checkpoint in Damascus province, a watchdog said on Tuesday. "Nine citizens, including a child, were shot dead by regime forces near the town of Qara, in the Qalamun area of Damascus province, yesterday (Monday) evening," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The nine were "executed" at a military checkpoint in the area, the group said, citing local activists. Video footage shot by activists and distributed by the Observatory showed bodies lain out on the white floor of a room, some of them partially covered with a piece of white plastic sheeting. Several appeared to have been shot in the head, and others in the chest. In Homs province in the center, members of a pro-regime militia killed seven members of a reconciliation committee in the village of Hajar Abyad, the Observatory said. It distributed a video showing black body bags tagged with pieces of paper bearing each man's name. More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria since an uprising erupted against the rule of President Bashar Assad in March 2011, according to the Observatory's figures. Syria mortar fire hits Israeli-occupied Golan Mortar fire from inside war-torn Syria hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday causing several wildfires to break out along the cease-fire line, an AFP correspondent reported. The apparently stray rounds struck as Syrian rebels and regime forces battled near Quneitra which lies in no-man's land, the correspondent reported. Several Israeli tanks were stationed in the area. An Israeli army spokeswoman earlier confirmed that "several mortar rounds fired from Syria exploded in northern Golan without causing any casualties." She said it was likely stray fire and not deliberately aimed at Israeli positions. The Golan has been tense since the beginning of the conflict in Syria more than two years ago, but so far there have been only minor flare-ups as Syrian small arms fire or mortar rounds hit the Israeli side, prompting an occasional Israeli response. Israel, which remains technically at war with Syria, seized 1,200 sq km of the strategic plateau during the 1967 Six-Day War, which it later annexed in a move never recognized by the international community.