The key facts

  • A patrol of 14 military vehicles entered the village of Al-Samadaniya al-Gharbiya in Quneitra province; soldiers broke open the school gates
  • The same day, a temporary checkpoint was set up in northern Quneitra, and a unit advanced toward Wadi al-Raqad in Deraa
  • The information is based on a report by Syrian state TV Al-Ikhbariya; no casualties or detentions have been reported

Raid in Quneitra

Israeli troops stormed a school and searched several homes in southern Syria on Saturday, Syrian state television reported Al-Ikhbariya. According to the report, a patrol of 14 military vehicles entered the village of Al-Samadaniya al-Gharbiya in Quneitra province; soldiers broke open the school gates and entered the premises. The report contained no information about casualties or detentions.

Other actions the same day

As Anadolu notes, citing the same report, earlier on Saturday Israeli troops set up a temporary checkpoint in the north of Quneitra province, while another unit advanced toward Wadi al-Raqad in the western part of Deraa province. Engineering units continued building fortifications near Saida al-Khanut in southern Quneitra.

Context

According to the agency, Israeli forces have repeatedly carried out raids in the southern Syrian provinces of Quneitra and Deraa: setting up checkpoints, searching homes, detaining civilians and leveling farmland 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 southern Syria in violation of the 1974 disengagement agreement. Damascus has repeatedly demanded the withdrawal of Israeli forces, calling such actions a violation of sovereignty and of the disengagement agreement. The report is based on a single account from Syrian state media; the details of the raid have not been independently confirmed.