This report complements the first report published in January 2025 and the second report published in July 2025 by Almarsad – the Arab Center for Human Rights in the Golan, on violations committed by Israeli forces in the areas they occupied in southern Syria following the fall of the Assad regime on December 8, 2024.
During the months covered by the report, between July 2025 and September 2025, the Israeli occupation army committed several violations inside and outside the buffer zone, affecting civilians and their property and causing significant damage to the environment and infrastructure in the area.
During this period, the Israeli occupation forces continued their daily incursions into villages in the governorates of Quneitra, Daraa, and the Damascus countryside, setting up temporary checkpoints, carrying out arbitrary arrests (short-term detention or imprisonment in occupation prisons), and conducting periodic searches of civilians’ homes, photographing them, and collecting their data. Civilians were subjected to various forms of harassment and violations of their rights to property and a decent life, as the occupation continued to confiscate their agricultural equipment, livestock, and sheep, and burn and bulldoze their agricultural land.
This report was prepared by gathering information from Syrian media outlets covering events in the region, social media pages of activists in the region, the interactive map of the INSS at Tel Aviv University, and news pages on social media. In addition to these sources, information was gathered from media reports prepared by international and Arab media outlets on events in the region, and from Israeli reports quoted by the Israeli occupation army.
Almarsad confirmed this information by communicating with journalists and activists from the buffer zone, and by communicating with some of the victims (such as communicating with the families of Syrian detainees in Israel and providing them with advice). It should be noted that Almarsad faced many difficulties in communicating with the victims of these violations and obtaining their testimonies, due to the refusal of many residents of the buffer zone to communicate with human rights organizations or the press for fear of the repercussions of such communication.
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