Documenting these movements, the Sijil human rights centre recorded 267 Israeli violations inside Syrian territory in August, bringing the total it has documented since the start of 2026 to 1,752.
Israeli forces on Thursday fired artillery shells at farmland on the outskirts of the village of Al-Hamidiyeh in rural Quneitra, a Syria TV correspondent reported.
No information has yet emerged on casualties or the extent of the damage caused by the shelling.
Israeli forces have stepped up their military activity in southern Syria over the past two weeks, particularly in rural Quneitra and Rural Damascus, where the area has seen a series of incursions, artillery shelling, checkpoints, raids and detentions.
The escalation followed a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by Defence Minister Israel Katz, to the Mount Hermon (Jabal Al-Sheikh) area in occupied Syrian territory on September 9.
267 Israeli Violations
Documenting these movements, the Sijil human rights centre recorded 267 Israeli violations inside Syrian territory in August, bringing the total it has documented since the start of 2026 to 1,752.
In its monthly report, the centre said the number of violations recorded in August rose by 43 percent compared with July, which saw 187, and by about 12 percent compared with June, which recorded 239.
According to the report, August recorded the second-highest monthly number of Israeli violations since the start of the year, after March, which saw 321, and ahead of April’s 254.
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