GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) -- 
Israeli forces carried out drone strikes in Gaza, conducted arrest raids across the occupied West Bank, bombarded southern Lebanon, and mounted new ground incursions into Syrian territory on Monday. 
In Gaza, Israeli drones struck near the Industrial Junction west of Gaza City and hit the roof of a house near the Palestine Mosque in the Rimal neighborhood, injuring several Palestinians, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA . 
A drone strike also targeted the al-Faluja area of the Jabalia refugee camp in the north, causing additional injuries. Israeli forces conducted a demolition operation in Rafah, southern Gaza.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces kidnapped 21 Palestinians in a wide-scale raid campaign on Monday, according to the Qatar News Agency citing WAFA. 
Nine young men were abducted during a raid on the town of Arraba south of Jenin, with soldiers storming homes and vandalizing furniture and belongings. 
Six others were abducted from Anabta and Kafr al-Labad east of Tulkarem, and four from the village of Immatin east of Qalqilya. A young man from Aqraba south of Nablus was also kidnapped after his home was raided.
In southern Lebanon, Israeli artillery shelled the towns of Mansouri and Majdel Zun, while warplanes struck Qantara and Kafr Tibnit in Nabatiyeh province, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency cited by QNA. 
Israeli forces also continued burning homes and demolishing foundations and roofs with heavy machinery in Zawtar al-Sharqiya, and opened heavy machine-gun fire around Wadi al-Hujair and Kabriha.
In southern Syria, Israeli forces established a checkpoint on the Rasem al-Halabi road in the central Quneitra countryside on Monday, searching passersby, according to Syria TV. 
A military force of five vehicles entered the villages of Maariya, Abidin, and Jamla in western Daraa, reaching a military post on the Saisoun-Jamla road before withdrawing toward the occupied Golan Heights. 
Overnight, Israeli forces fired more than 40 illumination flares over the northern and central Quneitra countryside, coinciding with intensive reconnaissance drone flights.  
The incursions are part of a broader escalation that has accelerated since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. Israel declared the 1974 disengagement agreement void and moved forces into the buffer zone, later expanding its presence across southern Syria. 
A war monitor documented at least 1,004 Israeli incursions into Syrian territory since Assad’s ouster, with nearly 460 recorded in 2025 and another 530 since the start of 2026. 
Israel has launched more than 600 air, drone, or artillery attacks across Syria over the past year, with the bulk concentrated in Quneitra, Dara’a, and Damascus.
The current Syrian authorities in Damascus have offered no meaningful response, maintaining what critics describe as a “suspicious silence” in the face of repeated violations. 
De facto president Abu Muhammad al-Jolani has instead sought to reassure Israel, declaring that his regime poses no threat and actively pursuing a security agreement or non-aggression pact that could pave the way for normalization.