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The Syrian Network for Human Rights documented at least 453 ground incursions by Israeli forces into Syria and at least 69 killings between Dec. 8, 2024, and Oct. 6, 2026, Syrian Al-Ekhbariya reported on Thursday.
The figures are included in a report examining the conduct and alleged violations of Israeli forces on Syrian territory since the fall of the former regime.
According to the report, incursions were concentrated in the southern provinces of Quneitra and Daraa, with fewer recorded in the Damascus countryside.
The network said it had recorded at least 162 arbitrary detentions. Of those detained, 127 were released, while the network and their families do not know the fate of the other 35.
The report also documented the demolition of at least 15 civilian homes by Israeli forces after an incursion into Hamidiya village in the Quneitra countryside.
Land operations and airstrikes
The group reported extensive land-clearing operations in the Jabata al-Khashab Nature Reserve in northern Quneitra on Oct. 17 and 18, 2025.
In late January, the network recorded Israeli troops spraying grazing land in Quneitra with a substance it could not identify. It said the forces resumed land-clearing operations on Oct. 4, west of Al-Asha village and Al-Rafid town.
The network also documented hundreds of Israeli airstrikes in Damascus, the Damascus countryside, Hama, Latakia, Homs, Tartus, Sweida and Idlib, but did not provide an exact figure in the published data.
Israeli presence in the buffer zone
The reported figures come amid an ongoing Israeli military presence in and around the buffer zone in southern Syria since December 2024.
On Dec. 13, 2024, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) said Israeli forces had entered the buffer zone and remained at several positions inside it, describing the movements as a “violation of the 1974 disengagement agreement.”
A UN report issued in September 2025 also recorded the continued Israeli military presence in the buffer zone and nearby positions. It pointed to Israeli measures to consolidate its presence in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and areas entered after December 2024.
The 1974 disengagement agreement between Syria and Israel established a separation zone monitored by the United Nations. Damascus continues to call for Israeli forces to withdraw and for the agreement to be respected.
