Israeli forces raid southern Syria’s Quneitra, set up checkpoint
Incursion near Saida al-Jolan is latest in near-daily Israeli operations inside Syrian territory since fall of Assad government
QUNEITRA, Syria (AA) — Israeli forces pushed into the countryside of Syria’s Quneitra province on Monday, deploying around the village of Saida al-Jolan and setting up a military checkpoint on the main road leading into it, Syrian broadcaster Alikhbariah TV reported.
The raid was the latest in a near-daily pattern of Israeli incursions across southern Syria — raids, checkpoints, house-to-house searches, and detentions — that Syrian media say have become a routine feature of life along the frontier since the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Israel’s presence deep inside Syrian territory dates to that collapse.
After Assad fell on Dec. 8, 2024, Israel declared the 1974 disengagement agreement with Damascus void and moved troops into the UN-monitored buffer zone that had separated the two sides for half a century.
Syria’s new administration has repeatedly affirmed that it remains committed to the agreement.
Yet even as Damascus signals no hostility, Israeli forces have kept up airstrikes and ground operations across Syria, causing civilian casualties and damaging infrastructure — pressing further into the territory of a neighbor that insists it poses no threat.
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