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Israeli forces opened fire on a water tanker and drove shepherds away during an incursion into southwestern Syria’s Quneitra province on Wednesday, Syrian media reported.
Alikhbaria TV said an Israeli military patrol advanced west of Saida al-Golan village in the southern Quneitra countryside. Troops expelled shepherds from the area and fired at the tanker before withdrawing, the broadcaster reported.
No casualties were immediately reported. The Israeli military had not commented on the incident.
The incursion came amid repeated Israeli military operations in southern Syria, particularly in Quneitra and Daraa provinces, including raids, searches, detentions and artillery attacks.
The UN Human Rights Office said last week it had recorded about 280 armed Israeli incursions into Syria in September, the highest monthly total this year. At least 49 Syrians remained in Israeli custody, it said.
Israel has occupied most of Syria’s Golan Heights since 1967. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024, Israeli forces expanded their presence into the demilitarized buffer zone and other positions in southern Syria.
Damascus has repeatedly called for Israel to withdraw from Syrian territory and reaffirmed its commitment to the 1974 Disengagement Agreement, which established a UN-monitored buffer zone between the two sides.
