Israel bombs several sites across southern Syria as Quneitra incursions continue

Israel bombed a military airport in southern Syria on Sunday as its forces continued their incursions in Quneitra.

An airstrike targeted Khalkhala military airport in the Suwayda governorate. Videos shared online reportedly from that airstrike show smoke billowing from the airport, which has been targeted numerous times by Israel.

It was not immediately clear what was targeted and if there were any casualties.

The attack comes after an overnight drone strike reportedly struck an ammunitions depot belonging to the former Syrian army’s 15th Brigade east of the town of Inkhil, in the north of the Daraa province.

On Saturday, Israel also claimed it targeted a weapons depot used by the Palestinian group Hamas south of the capital Damascus.

Israeli "fighter jets conducted an intelligence-based strike on a weapons storage facility belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation in the area of Deir Ali in southern Syria", the military said in a statement.

Images and videos allegedly showing damage from the strike on Deir Ali were shared online.

Hamas restored relations with the former Syrian regime in 2022 after about a decade of estrangement over the Syria's civil war.

Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the civil war there broke out in 2011, mainly on what it says are Iranian-linked targets.

Following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December in a lighting rebel offensive, Israel carried out hundreds more airstrikes on Syrian military assets in what it said was a bid to prevent them from falling into "hostile hands".

The raids took place as Israel continued its incursions in southwest Syria.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of reporters in Syria, said Israeli forces destroyed a military compound near the village of Ain al-Nouria in the Quneitra province after a three-hour long incursion at dawn on Sunday.

Another incursion took place late on Saturday in the village of Khirbet Saisoun.

In a separate incident on Saturday, a boy was hospitalised after being shot by Israeli soldiers in the village of Ruwaihina in the Quneitra province as he was grazing his sheep.

When Assad was ousted, Israeli forces crossed into a UN-administered buffer zone in Syria’s Quneitra province which separates Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, ending a truce agreement that had been in place between Tel Aviv and Damascus since 1974.

It has since taken control of several villages in the area as well as the Syrian side of the strategic Mount Hermon and is allegedly building illegal military bases, satellite images show.

Israel's incursions and occupation have drawn international condemnation and calls for Tel Aviv to immediately pull out its forces.

(AFP contributed to this report)