Protests His Village Was Seized, Israeli Soldiers Fired At Syrian Citizens

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JAKARTA - Israeli soldiers fired live bullets at Syrians who staged protests in southwest Daraa Province that injured one person, hours after troops attacked and seized two villages on Friday (20/12).

Local residents in Daraa protested the occupation, shouting, "Israel, come out," waving a new Syrian flag. Israeli forces reportedly opened fire on protesters from high positions nearby, injuring one person.

Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers admitted to having opened fire on the protesters, claiming that they were preventing the "threats" posed by the protests. Israeli soldiers claimed that the gunfire was in accordance with procedures, shooting a protester in the leg.

Reporting from ANATAR, Saturday, December 21, 2024, the two captured villages, Jamlah and Maaraba, are in the Yarmouk Baung, Daraa province, which Israel has captured as an effort to occupy Syrian territory that continues to expand following the collapse of the Baath Party regime.

Since the fall of the regime on December 8, Israeli forces have stepped up military attacks in Syria, destroying remnants of military infrastructure and entering an area that was previously a demilitarized zone.

Recently, Israeli soldiers expanded control in the occupied and advanced Golan Heights to 25 kilometers from the capital, Damascus.

In addition, Israel also announced the cancellation of the 1974 troop withdrawal agreement with Syria and deployed its troops to the demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights of Israel's occupied territory since 1967.

The move was widely criticized by the United Nations and several Arab countries.

According to the UN Release Observer Force (UNDOF), the demilitarized zone "panjangs 75 kilometers long and its width ranges from about 10 kilometers in the middle to 200 meters in the southernmost part."