Shafaq News – Al-Quneitra (Updated at 18:59)

On Saturday, Israeli forces deployed ten military vehicles in the Al-Quneitra countryside in southwestern Syria, sources told Shafaq News.

The sources said that the convoy moved from Tel Ahmar base toward the road linking Bariqah and Kodnah towns, advancing through Ruwayhinah toward the nearby village of Rasm al-Halabi, near the disengagement line with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. A checkpoint was positioned along a main road in the area.

The area frequently witnesses Israeli military movements inside or adjacent to the demilitarized strip established under the 1974 disengagement agreement. Tel Ahmar base, from which the convoy departed, is one of Israel’s main military positions in the Golan, used to monitor activity inside Syrian territory.

Meanwhile, the state-run SANA News Agency reported that Israeli forces advanced into several villages and towns in the central and southern countryside of Quneitra province, setting up checkpoints and stopping civilians for inspection.

Ten military pickup trucks carrying soldiers moved from the Tel Ahmar base westward toward the Bureika–Kodneh road, establishing a checkpoint. At the same time, another Israeli convoy of ten vehicles entered the village of Ruwayhina and proceeded toward the village of Rasm al-Halabi in central Quneitra, SANA said.

SANA also reported that an Israeli patrol moved from al-Adnaniyah in central Quneitra toward Ruwayhina, consisting of troop-carrying vehicles and two tanks, which took positions on the outskirts of the village.

“The Israeli forces withdrew hours later from the areas they had entered in Quneitra’s central and southern countryside.”

Earlier, Israel announced that an Air Force aircraft struck a vehicle in southern Syria that was carrying a mounted machine gun.