DAMASCUS, Syria: Israeli troops on Wednesday crossed into two areas of Syria’s Quneitra countryside before withdrawing, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported.
According to SANA, an Israeli military unit consisting of eight vehicles, including a heavy vehicle and two tanks, advanced from Tal Kroum toward the eastern town of Al-Samadaniyeh Al-Sharqiya. The unit remained in the area for several hours before withdrawing toward the ruins of Quneitra.
The report also noted that a separate Israeli force entered the village of Ofaniya, where troops raided and searched two homes before retreating.
SANA reported that these incursions are part of ongoing Israeli actions on Syrian territory, which Damascus claims violate the 1974 Disengagement Agreement and international law.
Syrian authorities called on the international community to take a firm stance to halt such actions.
Last month, Israeli troops carried out a ground operation in Syria’s southeastern Deraa province.
Israel has launched hundreds of strikes in Syria since the fall of former president Bashar al-Assad in December, including raids on military sites and seizures of the buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights, which breached the disengagement pact.
It has also opened talks with the interim authorities in Damascus.
Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, addressing the United Nations General Assembly has condemned numerous Israeli strikes on his country since he took over in January. He said that despite the reforms his government has sought to oversee, “Israeli strikes and attacks against my country continue.”
“Israeli policies contradict the international supporting position for Syria,” he said, adding that it “threatens new crises and struggles in our region”.
But said his government remains committed to dialogue.
