1 killed in Israeli shell targeting rural area of southern Syria

ISTANBUL

One person was killed when an Israeli tank shell hit a vehicle in a village in southern Syria, in the Quneitra governorate, Syrian media reported.

"Israeli occupation forces killed a young man through targeting a car with a tank shell in the village of Al-Za'rura," Al-Ikhbariyah TV said on US social media company X, with no further details available as yet.

Israeli forces have continued to target Syrian territory at an almost daily pace, carrying out ground incursions, particularly in rural areas of Quneitra and Daraa in southern Syria, detaining civilians, setting up checkpoints to search and question passersby, and damaging agricultural land.

Israel has illegally occupied most of Syria’s Golan Heights since 1967 and, following the ouster of the al-Assad regime in December 2024, announced the collapse of the 1974 disengagement agreement and moved to occupy the Syrian buffer zone.

Syrians say the continued Israeli violations are undermining efforts to restore stability and hindering government attempts to attract investment to improve the country’s economy.