A person with special needs has lost their life this Thursday during an operation by Israeli troops in the village of Jamla, located in a rural area of the Daraa governorate, in the southwest of Syria, an area where military actions by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are common, which control part of the territory.
According to the Syrian state news agency, SANA, IDF soldiers entered Jamla, deployed throughout the eastern neighborhood, and positioned snipers on the rooftops of private homes while advancing through the area, as part of an incursion in which the aforementioned person with special needs died.
The official media has not clarified whether the death occurred due to the shooting of one of the snipers or by direct fire from the troops that were in the streets of the locality, although it has indicated that the body has already been transferred to the National Hospital of Daraa.
For its part, the Syrian channel Al Ijbariya has reported that the Israeli incursion, in which 15 military vehicles would have participated, included the control of one of the access roads to the village. According to this channel, once the snipers were positioned, the IDF would have opened fire indiscriminately among the residential neighborhoods while searching several homes.
The IDF maintains occupation of a strip in the southwest of Syria that the government led by Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to abandon, equating it to the territories it controls in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. In this context, Israeli operations and incursions in localities like Jamla occur periodically.
In this regard, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, denounced in October that the Israel Defense Forces carried out 280 "incidents" within Syria "only" in the month of September, while nearly 50 Syrians remain detained by Israeli authorities in connection with these operations.
Her spokesperson, Shabia Mantoo, expressed her concern about the "continued impact" of Israel's armed incursions on the civilian population in southern Syria, emphasizing that the number of "incidents" recorded in September constitutes "the highest monthly figure since the beginning of the year." These are "raids on homes, restrictions on freedom of movement, harassment and intimidation of the civilian population, destruction of livelihoods, and arbitrary detentions," facts that the UN Human Rights Office is systematically documenting.