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Israeli forces have carried out artillery attacks and ground raids in southern Syria, while conducting air strikes and demolitions across southern Lebanon, despite diplomatic efforts to end the fighting.
In Syria, Israeli forces shelled a hilltop near the town of Beit Jinn in the western Damascus countryside late on Wednesday, according to witnesses. Syria’s Alikhbariah TV reported separately that soldiers had also raided and searched a house in the village of Taranja in the Quneitra countryside.
Al Jazeera’s Amr al-Halabi, reporting from Damascus, said the shelling of the strategic Bat al-Warda hill near Beit Jinn comes amid repeated Israeli attacks on the town in recent months.
These include an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in the town on Saturday. A ground raid in the town last year killed at least 13 people, including children.
The latest strikes came days after Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Asaad al-Shaibani met Israeli intelligence officials in Jordan for talks mediated by the United States in what Damascus described as a bid to end the continued Israeli “attacks, arrests and targeting operations” inside Syria.
Israel has conducted hundreds of strikes on Syria since the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. It has also deployed troops into a United Nations-patrolled buffer zone that for decades had separated Israeli and Syrian forces in the occupied Golan Heights.
Tensions have further escalated after Israel’s military bombed a Syrian airbase near the Turkish border, claiming that Turkiye had been seeking to establish a military presence there. Both Damascus and Ankara deny the allegations. Source Al Jazeera.
