Quneitra, Dec. 18 (SANA) Israeli occupation forces advanced early Thursday into villages in the southern Quneitra countryside in southwest Syria, raiding al-Hiran village and the al-Dara’iya hill west of al-Mu’allaqa, arresting a young man and bulldozing land.
SANA’s reporter in Quneitra said a force consisting of seven military vehicles entered al-Hiran at about 5 a.m., searched a house and detained a young man.
The reporter added that another occupation force, comprising two tanks, two military bulldozers and a military vehicle, advanced into the al-Dara’iya hill area, where it carried out bulldozing inside an abandoned military outpost. The force fired shots into the air to intimidate residents in surrounding areas, causing fear and anxiety among civilians.
Israeli occupation forces had carried out similar incursions into several villages in the Quneitra countryside a day earlier.
Israel continues aggressive policies and violations of the 1974 Disengagement Agreement through repeated incursions into southern Syria, including raids, arbitrary arrests, forced displacement, destruction of property and the bulldozing of agricultural land.
Damascus has repeatedly called for the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from Syrian territory, stressing that all measures taken by Israel in southern Syria are null and void and have no legal effect under international law. Syria has urged the international community to assume its responsibilities, deter occupation practices, ensure a full withdrawal from southern Syria and a return to the 1974 Disengagement Agreement.
