Published On 5/12/2025
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Last update: 02:50 (Mecca time)
Israeli army forces targeted, with a number of artillery shells, the southern countryside of Quneitra and the outskirts of the town of Koya in the western countryside of Daraa, yesterday evening, Thursday, according to what the Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported.
The Syrian agency explained that a patrol consisting of 3 Israeli military vehicles entered the Mantara Dam road in the Quneitra countryside.
She added that an Israeli patrol, also consisting of 3 military vehicles, penetrated towards the entrance to the western village of Samdaniya, and set up a checkpoint to search passers-by on the road heading towards the village of Al-Rawadi and connecting to the village of Al-Ajraf.
For its part, the Syrian Al-Ekhbariya channel reported that Israeli army artillery fired 4 shells on the outskirts of the town of Koya in the western countryside of Daraa. It was not immediately clear what losses resulted from the bombing.
The bombing comes within the framework of repeated Israeli attacks and violations of Syria’s sovereignty, despite regional and international condemnations and demands to put an end to them and oblige Tel Aviv to respect international law and relevant UN resolutions.
In the context of efforts to contain the tension, US President Donald Trump, in a blog post on his “Truth Social” platform last Monday, called on Israel to maintain a “strong and genuine dialogue” with Damascus, and to ensure that “nothing happens that would conflict with Syria’s development into a prosperous state.”
In recent months, Israeli-Syrian meetings were held in an effort to reach security arrangements that would guarantee Tel Aviv’s withdrawal from the Syrian buffer zone, which it occupied in December 2024.
Israel continues to carry out ground incursions and air strikes that killed civilians and destroyed Syrian army sites, military vehicles, weapons and ammunition.
Israel has occupied the Golan Heights since 1967, then expanded after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime into the buffer zone and Mount Hermon in southern Syria, and announced the collapse of the separation of forces agreement concluded between the two sides since 1967.
Israel uses different arguments to justify its attacks. Sometimes it says it wants to keep southern Syria demilitarized, and sometimes it claims to target groups linked to Hezbollah, and sometimes it justifies this by “protecting the Druze minority,” while Damascus describes these justifications as “a pretext for continued aggression” against its territory.