The Israeli occupation forces entered the town of "Al-Hurriya" in the Syrian province of Quneitra in the south of the country, while a UN source spoke about the Israeli occupation forces obstructing the work of peacekeeping forces in the occupied Golan Heights.

The occupation forces also asked the town's residents to evacuate it, with the aim of including it in the buffer zones on the border strip between Israel and Syria.

Local residents said that the occupation forces carried out a forced evacuation of the residents of the village of "Rasm al-Rawadhi" in Quneitra, and confirmed that these forces have now penetrated as deep as 5 kilometers in some areas.

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UN reinforcements

This comes as the American magazine "Newsweek" quoted a UN diplomat as saying that the international organization sent reinforcements to Syria after Israeli forces infiltrated across the ceasefire line that has been in place for five decades.

The source explained that the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force has reinforced a number of its positions in the Golan Heights, adding that the Israeli army has moved forces to the area, which has severely restricted the movement of peacekeeping forces in the Golan Heights and hindered them from carrying out their tasks.

Following the fall of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared the 1974 disengagement agreement between Syria and Israel void and ordered the deployment of Israeli soldiers in the buffer zone in the Golan Heights, which separates the part of the highlands that Israel occupied and annexed from the rest of the Syrian plateau.

In recent days, the Israeli occupation army has launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria, targeting chemical weapons depots, air defense systems, ammunition depots and naval vessels.

A UN expert said about these raids: “This is absolutely illegal, and there is no basis in international law for doing so, but it is a continuation of what Israel has been doing in Syria for a decade.”

In turn, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of a "democratic and just order", George Katrougalos, said: "This is another case of disrespect for the law shown by Israel in the region... unprovoked attacks against a sovereign state."