The Israeli occupation army shelled the village of Taranja with more than 10 shells, on the morning of Monday, May 11, in conjunction with the incursion of a military force into the town of Jabata Al-Khabar in the northern countryside of Quneitra
Local sources said that the shells fell in the vicinity of the village of Taranja and on the outskirts of the agricultural fields, without any civilian casualties, noting that the shelling comes as part of the occupation's attempts to pressure farmers and prevent them from reaching their lands.
The Quneitra Information Directorate stated through its official identifiers that an occupation patrol consisting of about 20 soldiers and several vehicles penetrated the town of Jabata al-Khab, set up a checkpoint at the entrance to the town, and searched the vehicles for a short time before withdrawing, without reporting any arrests.
On Sunday afternoon, a patrol of the Israeli occupation army infiltrated from the Adnaniya base towards the village of Ruwaihina in the central countryside and set up a temporary checkpoint in the area, and searched passers-by, before later withdrawing without receiving information about the registration of arrests, according to the Quneitra Information Directorate.
The Directorate pointed out that the Israeli occupation incursions coincided with intensive overflights of Israeli warplanes and drones in the airspace of the southern countryside of Quneitra, without carrying out any raids or shelling on the area.
Repeated Israeli escalation
This escalation comes a few days after the eastern area of Tal Ahmar was targeted with 8 explosive bombs, which led to material damage, in the context of a series of violations carried out by the occupation in southern Syria.
Since the beginning of May 2026, local and international human rights organizations have also monitored at least 18 incursions into border areas, including the entry of military vehicles, the erection of temporary checkpoints, and the abduction of civilians, in clear violation of the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement.
In April, the Center for Human Rights documented 254 Israeli violations, including 213 in Quneitra and 32 in Daraa, ranging from artillery shelling, intensive overflights, and raids inside border villages.
Reports indicate that the number of Israeli occupation sites inside Syrian territory ranges between 13 and 19 fixed positions, in addition to dozens of temporary checkpoints that are used in raids, searches and arrests inside the villages of Quneitra such as Sidon Al-Hanout and Al-Razaniyya, in operations carried out on an almost daily basis to control what Israel considers border threats.
The Israeli occupation seized an area estimated at 500 square kilometers of southern Syria, and turned it into a buffer zone that includes trenches and military roads, most notably the "Suva 53" road, in a step that reflects a trend towards consolidating a new reality on the ground on the border, with more than 800 infiltration points documented since 2024.
12,000 dunums were damaged as a result of the violations of the Israeli occupation in Quneitra
At least 12,000 dunums of agricultural land and pastures in the Quneitra countryside were damaged as a result of the field works carried out by the Israeli occupation forces within the "Suva 53" project, and the damage includes large areas in the northern and central countryside, where the digging of trenches and the lifting of earthen berms led to direct losses to farmers and herders, in addition to the destruction of parts of natural forests.
Earlier in May, the director of information in Quneitra, Mohammed al-Said, said in a statement to Anadolu Agency that since mid-2022, heavy Israeli military vehicles have begun to carry out engineering works extending from the vicinity of the town of Hadar in the north to the towns of the center, which caused the bulldozing of agricultural lands and the destruction of extensive pastures.
He explained that the local authorities conducted an official assessment that concluded that "the total affected areas amounted to 12 thousand dunums," noting that communication with the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) did not provide sufficient information due to the restrictions imposed on media access to the area.