(MENAFN) A group of young Israeli settlers attempted to create a new settlement outpost in Syria's Quneitra governorate, within the disengagement zone of the occupied Golan Heights, escalating already heightened regional tensions.

Social media footage shows the settlers, described as illegally occupying Palestinian land, breaching a security barrier in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and advancing toward the village of Bir Ajam in Quneitra.

In the videos, settlers are seen pouring concrete into pre-assembled wooden molds — clear signs of construction. One clip reveals a sign bearing the intended name of the new outpost: “Neve Habashan.”

The move marks a provocative expansion effort in an area already fraught with military activity. Since the collapse of the Ba'ath regime, Israel has carried out strikes across multiple Syrian provinces. Concurrently, it has established military bases and outposts both inside and beyond the 1974 disengagement zone in southern Quneitra, and frequently conducts patrol operations there.

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