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Three Shepherds Captured in Latest Israeli Operations in Southwest Syria: IDF resumes bulldozing in northern Quneitra forest - Antiwar.com (2026-10-25) https://news.antiwar.com/2026/10/25/three-shepherds-captured-in-latest-israeli-operations-in-southwest-syria/ ——— >> Israel has been keen on establishing a trench-line separating #Syria from its own occupied portions of Syria, and since the invasion in late 2024 has been back on the path of digging such trenches and establishing military observation posts inside Syria along that line. … this has also served to bar many Syrian farmers and other agriculture workers from their land, ... >> … Israel has been actively bulldozing substantial parts of the forest [around Jbata al-Khashab] to try to create a different reality on the ground. >> … the IDF also continues to try to keep the locals from traversing what will ultimately be the boundary line. This has included regular checkpoints and summary detentions… #Quneitra #WestBankPlaybook #palestine@palestine@fedibird.com
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Shepherds Increasingly the Target of Israel’s Southwest Syria Detentions (AntiWar.com, 2026-09-24) https://news.antiwar.com/2026/09/24/shepherds-increasingly-the-target-of-israels-southwest-syria-detentions/ ------ >> Israeli forces continue to raid southwestern #Syria on a daily basis, raiding towns and setting up checkpoints. This week, the increasing trend is for them to harass shepherds operating in the countryside of Quneitra Governorate. >> Those villages in southern #Quneitra are extremely reliant on agriculture, and herding is a big part of that. The shepherds are out in the countryside, grazing their flocks, and that puts them directly in the line of fire for the Israeli troops roaming the countryside on any given day... #StopIsrael #palestine @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com
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