Israeli Army Shoots a Palestinian Teen Dead as Raids in Syria’s Quneitra Continue

PALESTINE – Israeli army on Saturday shot dead a Palestinian teen in Jabalia, in an area outside Israeli control in northern Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.

The victim, identified as Mohammad Sabri al-Adham, 18, was shot by Israeli forces in the town of Jabalia, the source said.

The shots were fired by Israeli troops positioned in areas they control under the ceasefire arrangement in northern Gaza across the demarcation line into areas outside their control, according to witnesses.

Separately, Israeli helicopters opened indiscriminate fire in eastern areas of Rafah and Khan Younis in southern Gaza, with no injuries reported, witnesses reported.

Earlier Saturday, the Israeli army launched a series of airstrikes and heavy artillery shelling on several parts of the enclave that remain under its occupation, while continuing to demolish what remains of residential buildings, witnesses said.

Israeli violations of the ceasefire have killed 383 Palestinians and wounded 1,002 others, according to the latest figures released by Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Israel has killed more than 70,300 people, mostly women and children, and injured over 171,000 in attacks in Gaza since October 2023, which have continued despite the truce.

Israeli Forces Raid Syria’s Quneitra

Israeli forces on Saturday raided a rural village in Quneitra in the country’s southwest, searching homes and setting up checkpoints, Syrian state media reported.

Syrian state-run TV Alikhbaria said Israeli troops entered the village of Sidat al-Hanout with six military vehicles, carried out searches of four homes, and erected four checkpoints in the area.

No immediate information was available on possible arrests or casualties following the incursion.

Israeli forces on Friday briefly detained two young men at a checkpoint they set up in Quneitra following an incursion into several villages in the area.

The channel reported that the two men were detained after they were stopped at a checkpoint set up between the town of Umm Batna and the village of Al-Ajraf in rural Quneitra.

The two were later released, the outlet said, without giving further details.

Syrian government data shows that since December 2024, Israel has carried out over 1,000 airstrikes on Syria and more than 400 cross-border raids into the southern provinces.

After the fall of the Assad regime in late 2024, Israel expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights by seizing the demilitarized buffer zone, a move that violated a 1974 agreement with Syria.