{"id":560121,"date":"2026-07-26T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/560121\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:21:16","slug":"israeli-forces-shell-quneitra-countryside-in-southeastern-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/560121\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli forces shell Quneitra countryside in southeastern Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Sio<\/p>\n<p>26 July 2026\u2022Update: 26 July 2026<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces shelled the countryside of Syria&#8217;s Quneitra province on Sunday, with artillery rounds landing near the village of Tarnajah, according to Alikhbariah TV.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster reported that Israeli artillery targeted the vicinity of agricultural land near Tarnajah in the northern countryside of Quneitra.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate development, Israeli forces advanced before dawn toward the villages of Maariya and Al-Ardah in the Yarmouk Basin area of western Daraa, the broadcaster said.<\/p>\n<p>The force, consisting of three military vehicles and a bulldozer, entered the area, cleared a road and established a checkpoint inside the village of Al-Ardah, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports of casualties or material damage, and the Israeli army did not comment on the reported shelling or ground incursion.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents come as the visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to tour the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the occupied Golan Heights as part of efforts to monitor commitments under the Syria-Israel ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres arrived in Damascus on Saturday for a three-day visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViolations of Syria\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity are unacceptable and must cease. What is happening in the region around the Golan Heights is totally unacceptable,\u201d Guterres said on Saturday at a news conference with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani in Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the UN&#8217;s commitment to Syria&#8217;s territorial integrity, independence, and sovereignty, calling for an end to all Israeli violations, noting that what belongs to the Syrians \u201cis Syrian and cannot be taken away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For months, southern Syria has witnessed recurring Israeli incursions and attacks, including raids, searches, arrests and the establishment of military checkpoints.<\/p>\n<p>The activities intensified after the fall of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime in December 2024, when Israel declared the collapse of the 1974 disengagement agreement and seized control of the Syrian buffer zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohammad Sio 26 July 2026\u2022Update: 26 July 2026 Israeli forces shelled the countryside of Syria&#8217;s Quneitra province on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-560121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}