Israeli forces arrest man in southwestern Syria as attacks continue
Israeli soldiers have entered areas in southern Syria’s Quneitra governorate and arrested an unidentified man there, Syria’s state-run news agency SANA reports.
Eight Israeli military vehicles stormed the village of Ain al-Qadi to carry out the arrest, the agency said, while other forces set up checkpoints in the area.
The arrest follows an advance by Israeli soldiers on Tuesday into the old city of Quneitra, where they demolished a number of buildings.
Israel seized territory in Syria’s Golan Heights in the 1967 war and has held it ever since. Israel was already attacking Syria before the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad, an ally of its regional enemy Iran, in December 2024, but since then, its military incursions have become more frequent and violent.
Israel has repeatedly violated a 1974 agreement by occupying more land in Syria along the Israeli border, calling it a “buffer zone”, while also setting up checkpoints and abducting people deep inside Syrian territory.
