Ahram Online , Sunday 28 Jun 2026
Israeli occupation forces carried out a new ground incursion into Syria’s southern Daraa countryside on Sunday, while the Israeli military claimed its troops had killed several “armed militants”.
According to Syria’s Al-Ikhbariya TV, an Israeli military force consisting of six vehicles advanced into the Wadi al-Raqad area, reaching the village of Jamla in the Yarmouk Basin of western Daraa.
The broadcaster said the operation coincided with the deployment of another Israeli force to Tal al-Maghar, where troops established positions on the hilltop, operated laser illumination equipment, and deployed snipers across the area.
It added that Israeli forces stationed on Tal al-Maghar fired heavy machine guns toward nearby agricultural land.
The Israeli occupation army, meanwhile, claimed in a statement that its forces had killed several armed men in southern Syria a day earlier.
The latest incursion comes two days after Israeli occupation forces conducted six separate ground raids across Syria’s southern provinces of Daraa and Quneitra on Friday.
The raids were the latest episode in what Syrian authorities describe as an almost daily pattern of Israeli air strikes, ground incursions, arrests, and military operations across the country’s south.
Even as a US-Iran memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at ending hostilities across multiple fronts has raised hopes of broader regional de-escalation, Israeli leaders have increasingly signaled that their military presence in Syria is not temporary and could expand further.
Following the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, Israel declared the 1974 Disengagement Agreement effectively void, moved troops into the United Nations (UN)-monitored buffer zone, and expanded its military presence in Syria beyond the occupied Golan Heights.
Damascus, however, said it remained committed to the agreement and called for a full Israeli withdrawal.
The Syrian government has repeatedly demanded that Israel withdraw from the Syrian territory it occupies, which the United Nations says covers about 235 square kilometres (91 square miles). It maintains that all Israeli actions in southern Syria are null and void under international law and has urged the international community to press Israel to fully withdraw from the area.
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