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DARAA, syria/" class="auto-internal-link">syria (north Press) – Israeli army targeted on Wednesday evening the outskirts of the village of Kuya, located in the Yarmouk Basin area in the western countryside of Daraa, southern Syria, with three tank shells. The shells, launched from an Israeli position inside the former barracks base that has served as a de facto army outpost since the fall of the Assad regime, caused no declared injuries or material damage. However, reconnaissance aircraft were spotted flying over the area in coordination with the artillery strikes—the second time this village has been targeted this year.
The shelling triggered panic among residents, some of whom say they are preparing to flee should further attacks continue. One field source informed North Press that fear is “spreading like wildfire” and that civilians are considering displacement to other nearby villages rather than risk renewed shellfire. This incident comes after a March 25 strike on the same village killed six civilians and injured others amid an Israeli incursion and shelling campaign.
Indeed, syrian/" class="auto-internal-link">syrian rights groups say the repeated strikes and incursions by Israeli troops into the Yarmouk Basin jeopardise southern Syria’s fragile stability and violate Syria’s sovereignty. Local observers say the Israeli presence in the al-Jazira barracks, near Ma’riya village on the Golan border, serves as a strategic launch point for operations in the area. As civilians in Kuya reel from the latest attack, relief concerns are mounting over the potential for a emerging wave of displacement and growing isolation of the region’s border-communities under the shadow of repeated cross-border incidents.
Reporting by Mo’ayed al-Ashqar Editing by Jwan Shekaki