Children from the village of Abidin, located in the western countryside of Daraa, revealed details of their confrontation with Israeli occupation forces that infiltrated their village yesterday, Sunday. The children confirmed in field testimonies that they used stones and slingshots to confront the military vehicles that stormed the area, expressing their determination to protect their lands from any external aggression.
Local sources reported that the Israeli incursion originated from the Al-Jazeera barracks towards the heart of Abidin village, prompting residents to act immediately and close the main and secondary roads leading to the town. Residents used large stones to erect barriers to impede the movement of military patrols and prevent them from advancing again towards residential areas.
During the raid, occupation forces fired live ammunition at local residents to intimidate them, and also threw dense flare bombs into the sky over the Yarmouk Basin area. Reports indicated that Israeli soldiers deliberately destroyed large areas of agricultural crops belonging to the villagers before withdrawing from the area.
Video recordings documented the children's participation in obstructing the movement of patrols, with one of the participating youths stating that their motive was to protect Daraa and prevent any enemy from entering it. The scenes showed the use of handmade slingshots to pelt armored vehicles, in an expression of widespread popular rejection of repeated Israeli violations of Syrian sovereignty.
Residents of Abidin village began returning to their homes today, Monday, after a harsh night spent in forced displacement to neighboring villages, fleeing shelling and military escalation. The Israeli withdrawal had taken place late on Sunday night after carrying out search and sabotage operations in the vicinity of the village and the surrounding agricultural areas.
For its part, the Syrian government condemned these aggressions in the strongest terms, describing the incursions into the Quneitra and Daraa governorates as a blatant violation of international law and the United Nations Charter. Damascus affirmed that targeting civilians with artillery shells and terrorizing them constitutes a serious breach of the disengagement agreement signed in 1974.
This incident comes in the context of a continuous escalation adopted by the occupation in southern Syria, where incursions have been repeated in several villages in the Daraa and Quneitra countrysides over the past few days. These violations include the establishment of temporary military checkpoints and the inspection of passersby, in addition to indiscriminate firing towards agricultural lands and homes.
A state of cautious tension prevails in the Yarmouk Basin areas in the Daraa countryside, amid fears of a recurrence of these incursions aimed at seizing land and changing field features. Observers confirm that the simple popular resistance shown by the village children reflects the state of popular boiling over international silence regarding these continuous aggressions.
We want to protect Daraa.. We want to protect it from any enemy entering.
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Daraa Children Confront Israeli Incursion with Stones in the Western Countryside of the Governorate