The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) fired mortar shells at both Quneitra and Daraa on Saturday, May 2.
The Syrian Arab News Agency(SANA) reported that Israel fired at the Kudna forest, Tal al-Ahmar al-Sharqi and al-Rafid town.
It launched the attacks from inside the Occupied Golan Heights in Syria.
In Daraa, SANAreported that the IOF targeted the outskirts of Jamla village in the Yarmouk Basin.
Additionally, on Friday, the IOF targeted the vicinity of the al-Mantara dam in the northern countryside of Quneitra with several mortar shells.
According to The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the shelling coincided with Israeli warplanes flying extensively over several areas in Al-Quneitra.
Importantly, Israel continues to violate the 1974 Disengagement Agreement through incursions into southern Syria and attacks on civilians. This includes raids, arrests, land bulldozing, and the use of mortar and artillery shelling.
But when has Israel ever abided by a ceasefire?
Golan Heights
Israel illegally occupied 70% of the Syrian Golan Heights during the 6 day war in 1967.
In 1974, the United Nations (UN) created a ‘buffer zone’. But by 1981, Israel had annexed the territory. However, only the US recognises the annexation.
Almost immediately after the IOF occupied it, Israeli settlements began to grow.
Now, more than 25,000 Jewish Israelis live in the area at more than 30 illegal settlements.
Importantly, settlements are illegal under international law.
Article 49 of the Geneva Convention states:
The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
Additionally, the Hague Regulations [1907] prohibit the seizure and destruction of private property. This means that both building and expanding settlements breach international humanitarian law.
Just like in Palestine, Israeli settlers are trying to force indigenous Syrians off their land so that colonial settlements can be built.
According to Human Rights Watch:
Israeli forces have constructed fixed military installations adjacent to the affected villages and indicated they intend to remain indefinitely, making meaningful return effectively impossible.
They have also fenced off farmland, grazing pastures, and water sources, cutting families off from generations-old livelihoods, and razed large portions of village forest reserves. Israeli forces have also arbitrarily detained Syrian civilians and transferred them into Israel, where they are held without charge and incommunicado.
Of course, this is very similar to Israel’s patterns of forced displacements in both Gaza and Lebanon.
However, whilst Israel’s seizure of the land led to many Syrians leaving, around 20,000 members of the Druze community still live there.
According to Al Jazeera:
The Druze are an Arab and Arabic-speaking ethnoreligious community that resides in Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan.
‘Greater Israel’
As always, the end goal is the Zionist wet-dream of a ‘Greater Israel‘. The illegal-terrorist state first mentioned this project as far back as 1967.
It is used to refer to the territories Israel illegally stole in 1967: the Palestinian territories, the Golan Heights in Syria, and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
However, Zionists have also referred to it as including all of Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, along with significant parts of Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Only recently, the Israeli government has approved a huge new plan to transfer thousands more Israeli citizens into the occupied Golan Heights.
NEW: The Israeli government has approved a $334 million plan to transfer thousands more Israeli civilians into the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
The decision, adopted by the cabinet on April 17, 2026, is a clear statement of intent to commit war crimes. pic.twitter.com/w4TgkZ2QMy
— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) April 29, 2026
This comes at around the same time that Israel has ‘warned’ that Syria is rebuilding its military. We all know what that means. Pre-emptive strikes, anyone?
Syria is fully entitled to rebuild its military. It has the right to self-defence against illegal settler-terrorists or unprovoked attacks, just like Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran.
IOF — Unprovoked attacks
Additionally, Syria has never fired at Israel.
Syria doesn’t fire at Israel ever.
Israel still bombs Syria.
Surrender and capitulation do not work guys https://t.co/2UJPEhg397
— Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) May 3, 2026
Israel cannot claim it is defending itself, or defeating ‘terrorists’, as it has tried to do countless times with both Hamas and Hezbollah. Which, by the way, is bullshit anyway, because anyone living in occupied territories has the right to self-defence (including with arms) under international law.
For ‘God’s chosen people’, they sure do like to bomb a lot of innocent people. Doesn’t seem very Jewish of them, considering one of the Ten Commandments, which Jewish people believe God gave to Moses, is ‘Do not commit murder’. But then again, ‘Do not steal’ and ‘Do not tell lies’ are also things that Israel excels at.
Feature image via Travelling The Unknown/YouTube
By HG
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