The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported yesterday that the governorates of Daraa and Quneitra witnessed a marked escalation in Israeli military movements inside Syrian territory during the first 10 days of the current month.
The Observatory said in a press statement that this was manifested in a series of ground incursions, bombardment operations, the establishment of temporary checkpoints, and gunfire, accompanied by intensive drone and reconnaissance aircraft activity.
It added that Israeli forces carried out 15 ground incursion operations in the rural areas of Daraa and Quneitra between 1 and 10 July, involving approximately 30 military vehicles of various types, including armoured personnel carriers, armoured vehicles, and Humvees, concentrated in the Yarmouk Basin area and the villages adjacent to the Syrian Golan.
The Observatory noted that the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) continued to conduct its field patrols amid the ongoing Israeli military activity, with no signs of it abating.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also documented a notable increase in the pace of Israeli military movements inside Syrian territory during June, recording 74 incursion and military movement operations in the governorates of Quneitra and Daraa, accompanied by raids, search operations, the detention and interrogation of civilians, the establishment of temporary checkpoints, as well as excavation, fortification, and expansion of military infrastructure near the separation line with the occupied Syrian Golan.
The final days of that month, particularly 27, 28, and 29 June, saw rapidly accelerating field developments reflecting an escalation in the nature of these movements, following attempts to establish a new position at Al-Mughar Hill in the Yarmouk Basin area.