An Israeli unit made up of five military vehicles established a checkpoint at the al-Kasarat junction on the road linking Jbata al-Khashab and Ain al-Bayda, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).
Soldiers checked the identities of people passing through, then detained the four men from Jbata and took them to the al-Hamidiyah location, the agency added.
On Tuesday, Israeli army forces staged three incursions into Quneitra, despite an official announcement that a new round of negotiations between Damascus and Tel Aviv had begun under US mediation, focusing on reviving a 1974 Disengagement Agreement.
Israeli forces have been carrying out near-daily incursions into Syrian territory, particularly in the Quneitra countryside, detaining civilians, setting up checkpoints, questioning those passing through and destroying farmland.
After the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in late 2024, Israel expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights by seizing the demilitarized buffer zone, a move that violated the 1974 agreement.
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