Local sources report an Israeli operation in Kiswa, where six soldiers were killed by Israeli drones strikes a day before
\n Syria
\nIsraeli forces have conducted a series of strikes on a former army barracks in Kiswa, southwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus, according to Syria\u2019s state-run al-Ekhbariya TV.
\nVideo verified by Al Jazeera\u2019s Sanad fact-checking agency showed Israeli aircraft attacking sites in the village on Wednesday.
\nMeanwhile, a Syrian military source told Al Jazeera that the Israeli army carried out a landing operation in the barracks with the use of four helicopters.
\nAccording to the source, the Israeli army brought in dozens of soldiers and an unspecified amount of search equipment as it spent more than two hours at the site.
\nNo clashes took place between the Israeli forces involved in the landing and the Syrian army forces.
\nThe operation came a day after an Israeli drone strike killed six soldiers near Kiswa, and as Syrian officials in the government of interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa have increasingly accused Israel of seeking to expand its control in the region.
\nIn a statement on Wednesday, Syria\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the strike \u201ca gross violation of international law and the United Nations Charter\u201d.
\nIt added that the attack represented \u201ca clear breach of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic\u201d.
\nIsrael has launched hundreds of strikes targeting military sites and assets across Syria since the fall of former leader Bashar al-Assad in December. It has also expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights by seizing the demilitarised buffer zone, a move that violated a 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria.
\nOn Monday, Syria\u2019s Foreign Ministry said that Israel had sent 60 soldiers to take control of an area inside the Syrian border around Mount Hermon, near a strategic hilltop close to the border with Lebanon.
\nSyrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Asaad al-Shaibani decried the \u201cmilitary incursion\u201d as part of an effort by Israel to advance its \u201cexpansionist and partition plans\u201d.
\nThe latest Israel operations follow deadly clashes in the Druze-majority Syrian province of Suwayda, where 1,400 people were killed in a week of sectarian violence in July.
\nIsrael has since attacked Syrian troops and bombed the heart of the capital, Damascus, under the pretext of protecting the Druze people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Local sources report an Israeli operation in Kiswa, where six soldiers were killed by Israeli drones strikes a day before Syria Israeli forces have conducted a series of strikes on a former army barracks in Kiswa, southwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus, according to Syria\u2019s state-run al-Ekhbariya TV. Video verified by Al Jazeera\u2019s Sanad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n