The key facts

  • An Israeli military convoy of nine vehicles entered the village of Al-Hurriya in Quneitra province
  • The duration of the raid, searches and detentions are unconfirmed; the Israeli army did not comment
  • Damascus has previously repeatedly called such raids a violation of sovereignty and of the 1974 agreement

Raid on a border village

The Israeli army carried out a raid on Thursday in the village of Al-Hurriya in the northern countryside of Syria's southern province of Quneitra. According to a correspondent of the Alikhbariah TV channel, cited by Anadolu, an Israeli force of nine military vehicles entered the village; no details of the force's movements were provided.

What is known and what remains unclear

It is unknown how long the incursion lasted or whether it involved searches or detentions. The Israeli army has not commented on the incident. Al-Hurriya is located near the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, most of which Israel has held since 1967.

Context of raids in southern Syria

Israeli forces have repeatedly carried out incursions into the southern Syrian provinces of Quneitra and Daraa: setting up military checkpoints, searching homes, detaining civilians and leveling agricultural land with bulldozers. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in December 2024, Israel expanded its military presence in the buffer zone between Syria and the occupied Golan Heights and advanced into areas of southern Syria, despite the 1974 disengagement agreement. Damascus has repeatedly demanded the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Syrian territory, calling the incursions a violation of the country's sovereignty and of the disengagement agreement.