The Daraa 24 local news network said that Israeli forces stormed the village of Suweisa using tanks and two bulldozers, demolishing a number of deserted military barracks in the centre of the village and its outskirts, while also felling trees.
While the Israel troops did not demolish homes, residents gathered to protest against their destructive acts, raising Syrian independence flags.
Local sources told The New Arab's sister site al-Araby al-Jadeed that Israeli soldiers had gun sex and directly at the protesters, injuring three.
However,
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the protest continued, with people from neighbouring villages joining, until the Israeli forces left.
The village of Suwiesa lies to the west of the town of Jasem in Daraa province, and is only three kilometres from the UN-patrolled demilitarised buffer zone separating the Israeli occupied Golan Heights from the rest of Syria.
Israel invaded this buffer zone after the toppling of former President Bashir
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Two more people were maimed when Israeli forces fired on residents of the village of Diwaya al-Kabira in Quneitra province.
Israeli forces had stormed a military base nearby, in order to continue demolition work there.