A civilian has been injured this Monday by shots fired by the Armed Forces of Israel in the Syrian province of Quneitra, in the southwest of the country, according to the account of a correspondent for the official Syrian agency SANA deployed to the area.
"A civilian has been injured by Israeli occupation forces while shepherding some sheep to the west of the locality of Bir Ayam, in the south of the province of Quneitra," the Syrian news agency SANA has reported.
The Syrian state body adds that one of its special envoys and members of the press cabinet of the Quneitra governorate were also hit by the shots of the Israeli forces in Bir Ayam, although for now no further injuries have been reported.
Israeli tanks crossed the Alfa Line, which separated the territory occupied by Israel from the rest of Syria, on December 7, 2024, a few hours after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. In that maneuver, they penetrated the demilitarized area monitored by the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) and, in some sections, even advanced further, approaching the vicinity of Damascus.
Israel claims that this operation seeks to establish an additional security strip in the face of the instability generated after the fall of Al Assad, who was overthrown within the framework of the offensive led by the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al Sham, led by the current Syrian president, Ahmed al Shara.
Since then, the new authorities in Syria have demanded the total withdrawal of Israeli forces and their return to the lines established in 1974, considering that all decisions and actions adopted by the Israeli Government and Army in this sector "are null and void and lack legal validity under International Law".