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Israeli troops stationed in southern Syria came under fire late on June 28 night, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said, marking the second clash on the front in recent days.
There were no casualties as a result of the incident, according to the IDF, which said that its troops returned fire and launched mortars in the area, and a helicopter carried out a strike in an open area.
The Syrian state-run SANA news agency said that the incident took place in the town of Aabdyn in the western Daraa countryside after the local residents blocked the roads in the face of Israeli troops. Most of the town’s residents were displaced by Israeli shelling overnight, but the news agency said that they returned in the morning.
Israeli troops were reportedly advancing towards Tell al-Mughar, a strategic hill located outside the buffer zone in the western Daraa countryside, where a day earlier they set up tents.
The IDF invaded the buffer zone adjacent to the occupied Golan Heights in the governorate of al-Qunitra right after the fall of the regime of former president, Bashar al-Assad, more than a year ago, and has since established a series of nine posts there.
Since then, Israeli troops have conducted operations in al-Qunitra, as well as in the neighboring governorates of Daraa and Rif Dimashq on a regular basis.
These operations created some tensions with the locals, which escalated into clashes on more than one occasion in the past.
Just a day earlier, Israeli troops killed two gunmen inside the buffer zone. The pair, described by the IDF as “armed terrorists,” were identified approaching Israel from an area near the Druze town of Hader, around a kilometer from the Israel-Syria border. Troops stationed in the area fired on the pair, killing them and then capturing their bodies.
Syria’s foreign ministry said in a statement that it “condemned in the strongest terms” the two nighttime incidents, and warned that Israel’s “aggressive practices” were undermining the Syrian government’s progress in “consolidating security and stability” across the country, less than two years after a brutal 14-year civil war.
Over the past year, several rounds of talks between Israel and Syria were held, with the United States leading mediation efforts. The talks failed to produce a security agreement, however.
The latest escalation comes amid reports of an upcoming round of talks, also mediated by the U.S. While an agreement remains highly unlikely, Syria is not expected to challenge Israel. Still, the population in the south of the country appears to be growing frustrated with this passive attitude.
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no one can save syria
there is nothing left to save. an individual is nominally in charge of the country who would make geoffrey dahmer, ted bundy or the yorkshire ripper look like choirboys. it has been completely destroyed by years of western and joo orchestrated terror, murder and mayhem by the joo proxy scum of the planet. hundreds of thousands dead, millions of refugees, cities just piles of rubble, endemic murder, torture, rape, slavery. a bunch of rabid psycho thugs allowed to run riot.
with no prospect of any improvement. just a mad max smash-and-grab world with the jooz bombing and destroying at will whatever infrastructure remains. they have already stolen southern syria to go with southern lebanon. this is what the jooz are now doing to lebanon, as they intend to do to iran, turkey, pakistan, egypt. just more forever wars that will produce a bitter harvest for those who incited and engineered them. this is what jooz do.
i would have mocked putler and erdogan if ghassan alian had stolen damascus and sweida.
https://hawarnews.com/ar/143441
to say something you read all the time in the western commentsections about the ukrainian war.
“the agressor only needs to retreat and it would no longer be attacked.”
was this a few locals defending their homes ?
well you can bet it wasn’t that scumbag julani like those scumbags in the lebanese government they have surrendered some of their country to the zionist gangsters, the lebanese government should be facing high treason charges.
tomara que israel mate todos esses monstros.