Daraa, June 26 (SANA)Israeli occupationforces pushed into the village of Maariyah in the Yarmouk Basin area of westernDaraacountryside on Friday, a SANA correspondent reported.

A military force consisting of seven vehicles advanced from the Al-Jazeera barracks toward the village and set up a temporary checkpoint east of the mosque for about half an hour before carrying out searches of several homes in the vicinity of the checkpoint, the correspondent said.

The soldiers stopped a number of passersby and interrogated several of them before the force withdrew toward the Al-Jazeera barracks, according to the report.

Israel continues its attacks and violations of the1974 Disengagement Agreementthrough incursions into southern Syria, including raids, arrests, land bulldozing, and shelling that have become near-daily occurrences across the country’s south.

Syria demands the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from its territory and asserts that all Israeli measures in southern Syria are null and void and carry no legal effect underinternational law. Damascus also calls on the international community to assume its responsibilities, deter these practices, and compel Israel to withdraw completely fromsouthern Syria.