Israeli Forces Expand Ground Invasion Across Southern Syria
DAMASCUS (Dispatches) -– An Israeli drone struck a Syrian civilian on a road near the town of Beit Jin in the Damascus countryside on Saturday, as Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into southern Syria in a series of new incursions, local media reported.
The drone attack targeted a citizen on the road connecting Beit Jin farm and the town of Beit Jin. No information on the victim’s identity or fate has been released.
The aerial strike coincided with a ground invasion in the Quneitra countryside, where six Israeli military vehicles advanced from the Abu al-Ghithar crossing toward the al-Raqad dam area adjacent to the occupied Golan Heights, the reports said.
The vehicles established a presence near the dam without conducting raids or arrests, according to field reports.
In a separate incursion, an Israeli patrol entered the village of al-Basali in the Quneitra countryside, searched a home and withdrew without reporting any detentions among civilians, the reports added.
The fresh violations come as Israeli forces expand their terrorist operations beyond airstrikes into sustained ground incursions across southern Syria’s Quneitra and Daraa provinces, with forces establishing temporary checkpoints, conducting searches in villages, and taking up positions near border areas.
Syria’s de facto leadership under Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, a former deputy to Al-Qaeda and Daesh figures, has responded to the escalating Israeli aggression with calls for negotiations and normalization, drawing sharp criticism from within Syria.
The regime in Damascus has remained largely silent on the daily attacks, which have systematically destroyed infrastructure across the country.
The new violations come in the wake of an Israeli bombing of a military airbase shortly after a Turkish delegation visited the facility. Ankara, which has maintained close ties with the Jolani-led administration, has remained silent on the latest Israeli attacks despite its previous criticisms of Israeli operations in Syria, according to regional analysts.
The United Nations and Western governments have been largely silent on the repeated incursions, which come despite the presence of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire framework that has similarly failed to halt Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
Syria’s southern regions have become a theater for daily Israeli military aggression, with forces operating with impunity as the Damascus administration pursues diplomatic engagement while Israeli forces continue to destroy infrastructure and expand their footprint across the country.