Istanbul / Anadolu

An Israeli force on Saturday entered the town of Kudna in Quneitra province, southwestern Syria, and set up a temporary military checkpoint to search passersby, according to the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

The agency reported that 'Israeli occupation forces entered the town of Kudna in the southern Quneitra countryside today, Saturday.'

It added that 'an occupation force comprising six vehicles entered the town.'

The agency noted that they 'set up a military checkpoint and began searching passersby.'

Earlier on Saturday, an Israeli force entered the vicinity of the village of al-Samadaniyah in Quneitra province countryside and set up a temporary checkpoint to search passersby, according to SANA.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli side regarding the two incursions, which come in the context of Israel's continued violations of Syrian sovereignty.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa previously condemned 'the ongoing Israeli violations that undermine the security of the entire region,' calling on Israel to withdraw from the territories it occupied in southern Syria.

During a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in the capital Damascus on Tuesday, al-Sharaa said, 'The basis of true stability requires international commitment to compel Israel to return to the 1974 Disengagement Agreement and fully withdraw from the areas it occupied after December 8, 2024.'

For months, areas in southern Syria have witnessed repeated Israeli incursions and attacks, including raids, searches, and arrests, as well as the establishment of military checkpoints.

These activities escalated after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in December 2024, and Israel's declaration of the collapse of the 1974 Disengagement Agreement and its seizure of the Syrian buffer zone.