An Israeli tank fired on a car in the southern province of Quneitra, killing a young man, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reports, without giving further details.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, says witnesses said that the man was a civilian “and that the attack occurred while he was driving his car on a public road connecting villages near the border strip.” There is no immediate statement from the Israeli military.
After the ouster of former Syrian president Bashar Assad by Islamist-led rebels in December 2024, Israeli forces seized control of a UN-patrolled buffer zone in southern Syria, which Israel initially described as a temporary move to protect its borders.
The Syrian government says Israel is violating a 1974 disengagement agreement between the two countries and has called for it to withdraw its forces.
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