Daraa, Dec. 22 (SANA) Israeli occupation forces advanced at dawn on Monday into the area between the villages of Maariya and Abdeen in the western countryside of Daraa, southern Syria, where they set up a temporary military checkpoint at the al-Maqsam junction.
SANA’s reporter in Daraa quoted as local authorities saying that ‘’ Israeli forces advanced at dawn into the area between the two villages, setting up a checkpoint that has restricted local movement and sparked concern among residents. Local sources confirmed they are monitoring the situation on the ground and coordinating with relative authorities.’’
Areas of the western Daraa countryside periodically witness Israeli incursions accompanied by the establishment of temporary checkpoints or sudden military movements, negatively affecting daily life and undermining local stability.
On Dec. 6, Israeli forces targeted an abandoned military outpost north of the village of Jamla in the Yarmouk Basin area west of Daraa with four shells. No injuries were reported.
Similar incursions were also recorded a day earlier in the Quneitra countryside, where an Israeli patrol consisting of two military vehicles advanced from the al-Adnaniyah point in northern Quneitra and set up a checkpoint at the Umm al-Azam junction linking the villages of Ruwaihina and al-Mashayrifa. Another patrol advanced west of al-Rafid town in southern Quneitra countryside, while a separate Israeli force of five military vehicles entered the village of Sayda al-Hanout in the same area.
Israel continues its aggressive policies and violations of the 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement through repeated incursions into the countrysides of Daraa and Quneitra and attacks on civilians.
Damascus has repeatedly renewed its call for the implementation of relevant United Nations resolutions and an end to the Israeli occupation of Syrian territory, urging the international community to assume its responsibilities in deterring these unlawful practices.
