Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
A group of Israeli troops backed by armored vehicles infiltrated into southern Syria late on October 11, according to the Horan Free pro-opposition news blog.
The blog said that the infiltration took place near Kwdana, a town located in the southern countryside of al-Qunitra near the separation line with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. It claimed that the force swept an area 500 meters in depth and 1,000 meters wide, removing even olive trees.
The Israeli group later withdrew after installing a fence made up of barbed wire around the infiltrated area, according to the blog.
This was not the first such Israeli infiltration into southern Syria. Two days earlier, a similar group entered the Ruqqad Valley in the western Daraa countryside and seized a herd of sheep that belonged to locals.
Israel escalated its attacks on Syria significantly since the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip last October, targeting Syrian military sites as well as personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Lebanese Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
In addition to the reported infiltrations in southern Syria, Israeli drones and tanks shelled al-Qunitra and Rif Dimashq multiple times in recent days with one of the strikes killing a member of the country’s security forces. A series of strikes also hit several radar and air defense sites in Daraa and al-Suwayda.
These actions led to speculations that Israel may be planning a surprise invasion into southern Syria to further pressure Hezbollah and even Iran.
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