Olive workers in Syria’s Quneitra province were forced from fields, while farmland elsewhere burned, according to Syrian state broadcaster Alikhbaria TV, as local officials counted more than 100 Israeli incursions across the province in October.
Alikhbaria said troops searched olive workers on farmland west of al-Rafid and ordered them to leave. Near Taranja, smoke grenades were fired at farmland before a fire broke out. The channel gave no estimate of the damage.
The Quneitra Media Directorate recorded 125 Israeli incursions in October and 55 occasions when checkpoints were established across the province, according to the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). The directorate also reported that about 300 olive trees were uprooted in Saida al-Hanout village and west of Hanout Farm.
Alikhbaria said passersby were searched at a checkpoint in Jaba al-Khashab on Tuesday. EconoTimes has previously reported passerby searches at a Quneitra checkpoint.
Anadolu Agency reported that Israel’s military presence in the area separating Syria from the occupied Golan Heights expanded after Bashar al-Assad’s government fell in December 2024. Damascus continues to seek an Israeli withdrawal, arguing that the incursions violate Syrian sovereignty and the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement.
