Israeli forces entered the village of al-Samdaniyah al-Sharqiyah in the northern Quneitra countryside on Sunday, setting up a temporary checkpoint and searching civilians, according to SANA. A patrol of five military vehicles carried out the operation before withdrawing, with no arrests reported.
Israeli forces also fired three mortar rounds and one smoke shell from positions in the town of al-Hamidiyah toward the area between al-Hamidiyah and Salam City, SANA reported. No casualties resulted from the shelling.
The incursion is one of hundreds of similar operations Israel has carried out in southern Syria in recent months. Local monitors cited by SANA say Israeli forces have conducted approximately 300 military operations or violations in Daraa and Quneitra provinces, including roughly 70 ground incursions and 28 raids, in violation of the 1974 Disengagement Agreement.
Israeli forces have also established at least nine forward military positions in Quneitra, expanding control over roughly 235 square kilometers within and beyond the UN-monitored buffer zone, according to SANA. Syria has repeatedly called for a full Israeli withdrawal from its territory, saying all Israeli measures in the area are null and void under international law.
