Syrian National Resistance targets IOF site in Quneitra countryside
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The Syrian National Resistance has claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli occupation site in Quneitra amid rising incursions in southern Syria.
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Israeli military armored vehicles block a road leading to the town of Quneitra, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025 (AP)
The Syrian National Resistance claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli occupation site in southern Syria.
The group announced it was targeting the entrance to an Israeli occupation forces site in the Quneitra countryside.
In a statement, the Syrian Resistance group said its members monitored the movements of IOF troops and vehicles inside Quneitra before planting an explosive device at the entrance to a newly-established military point in this area's countryside.
A warning to Damascus
Additionally, the Syrian National Resistance issued a warning to the transitional government in Damascus to avoid pursuing its fighters in Daraa and Quneitra, noting that such policies would bring consequences the Resistance neither wants nor plans for.
This comes amid sustained infiltrations and incursions by Israeli forces into southern Syria, setting up arbitrary military checkpoints and harassing residents with forced searches and expulsions in some cases.
Repeated incursions
On September 28, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, two Israeli military vehicles advanced toward the village of al-Mushayrifa, where soldiers established a checkpoint to search pedestrians and vehicles before the force later pulled back to its nearby positions.
In a separate incident, Israeli occupation forces established and then quickly dismantled a temporary checkpoint at the entrance to al-Halabi village.
Earlier the same day, an Israeli patrol of around eight vehicles raided the town of Saida al-Golan, where troops searched several homes, conducted a few household surveys, and attempted to distribute food supplies, including flour, an offer that was firmly rejected by the local villagers.
Two days earlier, a similar patrol entered the villages of Abidin and al-Arida in the Yarmouk Basin area of western Daraa countryside, deploying heavily across residential neighborhoods amid reports of one person being detained.
On September 21, according to local sources in southern Syria, an Israeli occupation force patrol consisting of three vehicles infiltrated the perimeter of the village of Koya in the western countryside of Daraa.
