Damascus, Dec. 21. - The Israeli occupation army invaded two new towns in the Yarmouk Basin region in the Deraa governorate in southwestern Syria today, and opened fire on Syrians protesting against them. According to local residents, the Israeli military, supported by tanks, armored vehicles and bulldozers, entered the towns of Jamla and Maaraba in Deraa.
According to complaints from local residents, the Zionist military, supported by tanks, armored vehicles and bulldozers, entered the towns of Jamla and Maaraba in Deraa.
This comes a day after Tel Aviv troops did something similar in the villages of Mazraat Beit Jinn and Mughr Al-Mir, in the extreme southwest of Damascus-Countryside province.
In reaction to this invasion, residents of the area took to the streets in a demonstration against the occupier, where they raised national flags and chanted the slogan “Go away, Israel.”
During the protest, Israeli forces opened fire on the crowd from the peaks of the hills where they were positioned, wounding one person with a shot in the leg.
Images spread on social media showed a young man being shot for protesting and approaching an Israeli position.
The occupation army acknowledged, in a statement, that it opened fire on the protesters.
Following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's government on the 8th of this month, Israel intensified its airstrikes to destroy the military infrastructure and remaining facilities of the Syrian army, as well as expanded its occupation of the Golan.
The Zionist government also announced the collapse of the 1974 separation of forces agreement with Syria and occupied the demilitarized buffer zone of the Golan Heights as well as Mount Hermon, and then its army penetrated into the rural areas of Deraa and Quneitra.
On December 8, Islamist opposition groups took control of Damascus after the withdrawal of Syrian forces, while Al-Assad left for Russia, which granted him “humanitarian asylum,” putting an end to 61 years of Baath Party rule. (Text and photos: PL)