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Israeli army convoy conducts new incursion in Syria’s Quneitra countryside

Saturday, 13 December 2025 11:06 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 13 December 2025 11:08 AM ]

Israeli soldiers are seen carrying out an incursion in a location given as the occupied Golan Heights, in this picture released on December 11, 2024. (File photo by Reuters)

Israeli forces have carried out a new ground incursion into a village in Syria’s southwestern province of Quneitra amid heightened military activity near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, according to a monitoring group.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an Israeli convoy consisting of ten military vehicles moved into the village of Saida al-Hanout in the Quneitra countryside early on Saturday.

The occupation forces established a makeshift checkpoint and ransacked a number of houses. However, no arrests were reported.

The incursion followed a similar offensive in the village a week earlier, where six Israeli vehicles, including three Humvees, two white Hilux trucks, and a black van, advanced toward the area.

The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said at the time that another Israeli military convoy consisting of four vehicles also moved toward Beer Ajam and Bariqa villages, and carried out extensive excavation works in the region north of the Bariqa dam.

Days earlier, a three-vehicle Israeli convoy had advanced into the towns of Samdaniya al-Sharqiya and al-Ajraf in the northern Quneitra countryside.

Israeli forces set up a temporary military checkpoint between the towns near a demolished water tank.

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Israel has repeatedly conducted aggressive operations across Syrian territory following the collapse of former President Bashar al-Assad’s government late last year.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his forces to advance further into Syrian territory, targeting the acquisition of several strategically significant locations in the area.

Israel has intensified its presence in Syria by taking control of the buffer zone that divides the occupied Golan Heights from the broader Syrian territory, thereby violating the provisions outlined in the 1974 disengagement agreement.

Analysts caution that the silence of Syria’s ruling Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regime, combined with its steps toward normalization with Tel Aviv, has encouraged the Israeli regime to escalate its territorial occupation in Syria and increase its airstrikes on the area.

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