Israeli Forces Storm Village in Syria’s Quneitra

(MENAFN) Israeli military forces pushed into a village in Syria's Quneitra province Wednesday, conducting house-to-house searches and intimidating local residents in what has become an increasingly routine pattern of cross-border incursions.

Media reported that Israeli troops entered the village of Al-Asbah in the southern Quneitra countryside under the cover of six military vehicles, carrying out raids on residential properties and terrorizing civilians.

The same outlet had earlier reported that Israeli forces resumed land-leveling and territorial expansion operations elsewhere in Quneitra province that same day, while simultaneously imposing movement restrictions on local civilians.

Syrian authorities issued no comment on the reported violations of the country's sovereignty.

The incursions are far from isolated. Israeli military activity in southern Syria has grown to near-daily frequency in recent months, typically involving home raids, checkpoint enforcement, and the detention of civilians — among them children and shepherds.

The surge in Israeli operations follows the collapse of former Syrian President Bashar Assad's government on Dec. 8, 2024, after which Israel declared the 1974 Disengagement Agreement null and void and moved to occupy the frontier buffer zone.

Despite the incoming Syrian administration making no hostile declarations toward Israel, Israeli forces have continued to carry out airstrikes deep inside Syrian territory since Assad's ouster — strikes that have killed civilians and targeted military infrastructure, equipment, and munitions stockpiles.

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