On Thursday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a Syrian citizen who was herding sheep on lands in the Quneitra Governorate in southern Syria.

A.S., a resident of the area, told Al Jazeera Net that the Israeli occupation forces penetrated into Syrian territory and reached the town of Al-Rafid, which is close to the border fence, and arrested a citizen named Mahmoud Hilal Al-Fneish, while he was working as a shepherd.

The source added that the incursion was participated in by dozens of occupation soldiers accompanied by vehicles equipped with machine guns, in addition to the mobilization of Israeli armored vehicles inside the occupied Golan Heights.

He pointed out that the reasons for the arrest of Al-Fneish, who is 63 years old, and his being taken into the occupied Golan Heights are unknown until now, as he works in raising livestock and has never been active in any military formation, stressing that the man was arrested in front of the eyes of the Syrian regime forces present at the nearby military points.

The Israeli occupation army had previously published a video clip at the beginning of this month of a Syrian citizen named Ali Suleiman Al-Asi, after he was arrested on July 18 from inside his farm in the town of Saida, Golan, in the countryside of Quneitra Governorate.

It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation forces have penetrated into Syrian territory several times recently, especially with the beginning of the war on Lebanon, and have dug tunnels and removed earthen barriers that the Syrian regime forces had previously raised.