Israeli force penetrates the countryside of Quneitra and sets up a temporary checkpoint

Syrian authorities said that forces of the Israeli occupation army carried out 3 incursions yesterday evening, Wednesday, in a number of villages in the southern Quneitra countryside, southwest of the country, in a new disregard for US President Donald Trump's calls for de-escalation.

The Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported that an occupation patrol infiltrated from the Al-Adnaniyah point towards the villages of the southern Quneitra countryside, where it was stationed in the village of Umm Azam at the crossroads leading to the villages of Al-Mushairfa and Al-Saeeda and to the village of Ruwayhina, and set up a temporary checkpoint.

Earlier on Wednesday, Al Jazeera's correspondent quoted local sources as saying that an occupation drone targeted the Tal Bat al-Ward area in the vicinity of the town of Beit Jann in the Damascus countryside with three missiles, hitting vacant land without causing any casualties.

Last Friday, an Israeli patrol infiltrated the town of Beit Jann in the Damascus countryside, south of Syria, which led to an armed clash with the residents, resulting in the injury of 6 Israeli soldiers, including 3 officers.

Following that, Israel committed a massacre in retaliation against the people of the town who tried to defend their land, through an air aggression that resulted in the death of 13 people, including women and children, and the injury of about 25 others.

In an effort to de-escalate tensions between the two sides, Trump, in a tweet via his platform "Truth Social" last Monday, called on Israel to maintain a "strong and genuine dialogue" with Damascus, and to ensure that "nothing happens that would conflict with Syria's development into a prosperous state."

In recent months, Israeli-Syrian meetings have been held in an effort to reach security arrangements that guarantee Tel Aviv's withdrawal from the Syrian buffer zone, which it occupied in December 2024.

Although the Syrian government has not posed any threat to Tel Aviv, Israel continues to carry out ground incursions and air strikes that have killed civilians and destroyed military sites, vehicles, weapons and ammunition of the Syrian army.