Esra Tekin<\/p>\n
16 August 2026\u2022Update: 16 August 2026<\/p>\n
Israeli forces raided the Syrian town of al-Rafid in the southern Quneitra countryside Saturday night and searched several homes.<\/p>\n
Syria\u2019s Al-Ikhbariya TV reported that Israeli forces entered al-Rafid, raiding a number of homes.<\/p>\n
The channel provided no further details on the size of the Israeli force involved or whether the raids resulted in any arrests.<\/p>\n
It was also not immediately clear whether the Israeli forces had withdrawn from the town.<\/p>\n
The incursion comes amid continued Israeli violations of Syrian sovereignty.<\/p>\n
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has previously condemned \u201cthe ongoing Israeli violations that undermine the security of the entire region,\u201d calling on Israel to withdraw from the territories it has occupied in southern Syria.<\/p>\n
Areas of southern Syria have witnessed repeated Israeli incursions and attacks for months, including raids, searches and arrests, as well as the establishment of military checkpoints.<\/p>\n
These activities intensified following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime in December 2024, after Israel declared the 1974 Disengagement Agreement to have collapsed and took control of the Syrian buffer zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Esra Tekin 16 August 2026\u2022Update: 16 August 2026 Israeli forces raided the Syrian town of al-Rafid in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-585956","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\/585956","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=585956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}