New Israeli incursion in the countryside of Daraa, Syria

Israeli forces infiltrated, on Monday, into the countryside of Daraa in southern Syria and set up a military checkpoint to restrict the movement of citizens, in the latest violation of the sovereignty of the Arab country.

Occupation forces infiltrated today (Monday) into the area between the villages of Maariya and Abidin in western Daraa countryside, where they set up a military checkpoint at the Maqsam point.

It quoted the head of the municipality of Abidin and Maariya, Muwaqqaf Mahmoud, as saying that "occupation forces infiltrated at dawn between the two villages and established a temporary checkpoint at the Maqsam point, which led to a state of anxiety among the locals and restricted movement."

Until 08:30 "G.M.T", no official Israeli statement has been issued regarding the new incursion.

This aggression comes within the framework of repeated Israeli incursions in western Daraa countryside, usually accompanied by the establishment of military checkpoints aimed at tightening the daily lives of the residents.

On December 6th of the current month, Israeli artillery shelled an abandoned military company headquarters north of the village of "Jamla" in the Yarmouk Basin area, without human casualties.

The Israeli army escalated, on Sunday, its violations of Syria's sovereignty through three land incursions in Quneitra governorate and its surroundings (southwest).

Thus, the total number of incursions since the beginning of December of the current month (within 21 days) has risen to 42 incursions, some of which involved arrests.

Although the Syrian government does not pose a threat to Tel Aviv, the Israeli army has carried out airstrikes that killed civilians and destroyed sites, military vehicles, weapons, and ammunition belonging to the Syrian army.

Damascus and Tel Aviv are negotiating to reach a security agreement, and Syria first conditions the return of the situation on the map to "what it was before December 8, 2024", when revolutionary factions overthrew the regime of the deposed President Bashar al-Assad.

At that time, Israel announced the collapse of the disengagement agreement concluded with Syria in 1974, and occupied the Syrian buffer zone, exploiting the security conditions that accompanied the overthrow of al-Assad.

Since 1967, Israel has occupied most of the Syrian Golan Heights.

Syrians say that the continuation of Israeli violations limits their ability to restore stability and hinders government efforts to attract investments aimed at improving the economic reality.

Israel also occupies Palestine and Lebanese lands, and refuses to withdraw and establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on the borders before the 1967 war.