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Wed 26 Feb 2025 8:36 am - Jerusalem Time

Israeli raids on southern Damascus and Daraa, and a ground incursion into the Quneitra countryside

The Israeli occupation army launched raids targeting several sites in the Al-Kiswah area, south of Damascus, and in the countryside of Daraa late at night. Local sources also reported an incursion by Israeli forces into the administrative borders between the Daraa and Quneitra governorates in southern Syria.


The Israeli raids targeted Al-Kiswah in the Damascus countryside and the vicinity of the city of Izra in the Daraa countryside in southern Syria, and Israeli forces penetrated the village of Ain Al-Baida in the Quneitra countryside in southern Syria, according to what sources confirmed to Al Jazeera.


Sources said that the Israeli raids targeted a military site belonging to the Syrian Ministry of Defense in Tal al-Hara in the western countryside of Daraa. The sources explained that the Israeli bombing of the al-Kiswah area in the Damascus countryside targeted a military site belonging to the Syrian Ministry of Defense. The sources indicated to Al Jazeera that Israeli forces penetrated the administrative borders between the Daraa and Quneitra governorates in southern Syria and the Ain al-Baida area in the Quneitra countryside in southern Syria.


Reuters reported, citing correspondents and residents, the sound of explosions and low-flying planes in Damascus late Tuesday evening.


Al Jazeera reported that the Israeli army launched several raids on sites in Daraa, specifically in the Izraa area in the northern Daraa countryside, as well as the strategic Tal al-Hara, which was one of the military sites in the western Daraa countryside and is one of the highest hills in that area. The correspondent indicated that the raids coincided with intensive flights of reconnaissance aircraft in the western Daraa countryside as well as in the neighboring Quneitra governorate.


In return, the Israeli army announced that it had attacked military targets in southern Syria, including headquarters and facilities containing weapons. The occupation army said that the presence of military means and forces in the southern part of Syria poses a threat to Israel and that Tel Aviv will continue to work to eliminate any threat against its citizens, it claimed.


In the same context, Israeli Channel 14 said that the Israeli army is raiding military bases that previously served the Syrian army and destroying combat equipment in Damascus. For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz said that Israel will not allow southern Syria to become like southern Lebanon, as he put it.


For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz said that his government would not allow southern Syria to turn into something similar to southern Lebanon, as he put it.


He described the Israeli army's attacks in Syria as an attempt to stop what he called attempts by the Syrian regime forces and terrorist organizations to position themselves in the security zone in southern Syria.

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Israeli raids on southern Damascus and Daraa, and a ground incursion into the Quneitra countryside

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