The Israeli Army Escalates Its Violations of Syrian Sovereignty with 42 Incursions in 21 Days

The Israeli army escalated its violations of Syrian sovereignty on Sunday through three ground incursions in Quneitra province and its surroundings (southwest).

Thus, the total number of incursions since the beginning of December of the current year, that is, in 21 days, rises to 42 incursions, some of which involved arrests.

The incursions come within an Israeli strategy to nibble additional areas of land and impose a new geographical and field reality that transcends the historical disengagement lines, according to Syrians.

On Sunday, the official Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported that "an occupation patrol, consisting of two military vehicles, intruded from the Al-Adnaniya point in the northern countryside of Quneitra".

It added that it "set up a barrier at the intersection of the village of 'Um al-Azham' which connects it to the villages of Ruwayhinah and Al-Mashayrifah".

Another patrol intruded west of the town of Al-Rafid in the southern countryside of Quneitra, and fired randomly into the air, according to the agency.

The agency continued that a patrol consisting of 5 military vehicles intruded into the village of Sayda Hanout in the southern countryside of Quneitra.

According to a count, based on the "SANA" agency, the Israeli forces committed 42 incursions and land assaults since the beginning of the current December, distributed across 4 main axes.

In the axis of the central countryside of Quneitra, the number of incursions reached 18, and the villages of Bir Ajam, Bariqa, and Kodana topped these assaults.

These villages witnessed repeated incursions of heavy military vehicles, accompanied by digging trenches, building large earthen barriers, and uprooting thousands of fruit and forest trees.

In the axis of the northern countryside of Quneitra, the number of incursions reached 12, and they were concentrated in the areas of Jbata al-Khashab, Tarinjeh, Mazra'at al-Amal, and al-Hamidiyah, and bulldozers destroyed agricultural areas and water wells, and prevented farmers from accessing their lands.

In the axis of the southern countryside of Quneitra, the Israeli army carried out 9 incursions, targeting the villages of Al-Rafid, Al-Asha, Al-Qahtaniyah, and Al-Huriyah, and dug a "dirt road" military, and placed barbed wire.

As for the fourth axis area, although it administratively belongs to the countryside of Damascus governorate, it is located in the northern sector completely adjacent to the borders of Quneitra and falls within the "Golan Front".

3 assaults in this axis affected the slopes of Mount Hermon and the surroundings of the town of Beit Jann, and there were Israeli attempts to establish technical surveillance points in elevated areas overlooking the Syrian depth.

Although the Syrian government does not pose a threat to Tel Aviv, the Israeli army launched air raids that killed civilians and destroyed sites, vehicles, weapons, and ammunition belonging to the Syrian army.

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

On that day, Israel announced the collapse of the 1974 disengagement agreement concluded with Syria, 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 area 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 to improve 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.