The Israeli occupation forces infiltrated into the southern countryside of Quneitra, raided a number of houses, and interrogated a journalist in the area.

Local sources reported on Wednesday, June 17, that an Israeli patrol consisting of 5 military vehicles and about 30 members stormed the town of Saida in the southern countryside of Quneitra, and raided 10 houses.

The Quneitra Media Directorate reported on its Facebook page that Israeli occupation forces stormed the house of one of its journalists, where it conducted an interrogation with him and threatened him to prevent him from filming the occupation army before withdrawing without recording any cases of abduction.

Incursion into Wadi Al-Raqqad in the Yarmouk Basin

On Monday, June 15, the countryside of Quneitra and Daraa witnessed a new escalation on the ground by the Israeli occupation forces, represented by the erection of a temporary checkpoint east of the village of Saida in the Golan, in conjunction with the incursion of a military force on the outskirts of Wadi al-Raqqad in the western countryside of Daraa governorate.

According to local sources, an Israeli patrol of 5 armored military vehicles penetrated the vicinity of Sidon Golan, where it set up a temporary checkpoint and began searching passers-by and vehicles and verifying identities, before withdrawing towards the border strip.

The western countryside of Daraa recorded a new incursion by an Israeli military force consisting of several vehicles, including two tanks, which reached the outskirts of Wadi al-Raqqad, where they fired towards the surrounding agricultural lands, before withdrawing without registering any human casualties, the state-run SANA news agency reported.

More than 700 incursions into Syria since the fall of Assad

The Israeli occupation army has carried out more than 700 security and military operations inside Syrian territory, since the fall of the Assad regime until last May, in continuous violation of the disengagement agreement signed in 1974, according to a statistic issued by Golan FM, which documents Israeli violations in Syria.

According to the statistics, the occupation army abducted about 197 people from the areas of southern Syria, including civilians and children, while 43 detainees are still in arbitrary detention so far, amid the lack of any accurate information about the fate of a number of them.

The Israeli occupation announced the disengagement agreement in December 2024, and since then, the UNDOF forces have been content to follow up and document Israeli violations, without any direct military intervention, in compliance with the limits of its legal mandate, which restricts its role to monitoring and reporting only, as UNDOF operates under Security Council Resolution 350 of 1974, which is a protocol mandate that does not grant peacekeepers coercive powers or the ability to confront Israeli military vehicles infiltrating within the separation zone.

Damascus affirms that all measures taken by the occupation forces inside Syrian territory are null and void and illegal in accordance with the provisions of international law, calling on the international community to intervene to stop these violations and oblige Israel to withdraw completely from the Syrian territories in which it has infiltrated after the fall of the ousted regime in Syria.