Israeli forces entered an area in the western countryside of Syria’s Daraa province on Saturday, according to the country’s state-run SANA news agency.
– A force consisting of two Israeli military vehicles entered the Wadi al-Ruqqad area, SANA reported.
– The incursion coincided with Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flying over the western part of the Yarmouk Basin, it said, adding that no attacks or arrests had been reported.
– On Friday, Israeli forces entered an area west of the al-Razaniya farm in neighboring Quneitra province and opened fire toward shepherds to prevent them from grazing before withdrawing.
– Israeli forces also entered and surrounded the town of Abidin in the Yarmouk Basin in western Daraa countryside on Friday.
– Israel has carried out repeated incursions into southern Syria since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024, including movements into the buffer zone separating the two countries.
– The buffer zone was established under the 1974 Disengagement Agreement between Syria and Israel, which created a UN-monitored area separating their forces following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.
– The Syrian government has repeatedly condemned the Israeli incursions as violations of the agreement and demanded Israel’s complete withdrawal from Syrian territory.