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Residents of Abidin, southern Syria, resisted the Israeli troop incursion by throwing stones and rocks

Original Social Media Post

"Affrontements entre l’armée israélienne et des habitants du village d’Abidine, situé dans le bassin du Yarmouk, à l’ouest de la province de Deraa en Syrie ! Selon l’agence officielle syrienne SANA, les forces israéliennes ont ouvert le feu en direction des habitants alors qu’elles se retiraient de la localité. Toujours selon SANA, les habitants ont ensuite érigé des barricades de pierres sur les routes menant au village afin d’empêcher toute nouvelle avancée des forces israéliennes. Parallèlement, l’armée israélienne a tiré des fusées éclairantes au-dessus de la région du bassin du Yarmouk. De son côté, l’Observatoire syrien des droits de l’homme a confirmé que des habitants d’Abidine avaient affronté les forces israéliennes en leur lançant des pierres." - Source

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Translation:

Clashes broke out between the Israeli army and residents of the village of Abidin, located in the Yarmuk Basin in western Daraa Governorate, Syria.

According to the Syrian state news agency SANA, Israeli forces opened fire at residents as they withdrew from the village.

SANA also reported that residents erected stone barricades on the roads leading to Abidin to prevent any further advance by Israeli forces. At the same time, the Israeli military fired illumination flares over the Yarmuk Basin.

For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that Abidin residents confronted Israeli forces by throwing stones at them.

Event Notes

Israeli incursion into Abidin and military intimidation of civilian resistance (Syria)

Abidin, Daraa Governorate, Syria (also spelled Abdin) is a village in southern Syria, in the Daraa Governorate, near the Yarmouk Basin area close to the border with Jordan.

It is located in the western countryside of Daraa, in the region historically known as the Hauran. The village is roughly 15–25 km (about 10–15 miles) from the Golan Heights area, depending on which point of the Golan boundary is used.

It is therefore part of the strategically sensitive area near the Syrian–Israeli armistice line, rather than a distant location inside Syria.

Israel has expanded military activity beyond the immediate Golan area, saying it is aimed at preventing threats from reaching its northern border. Israeli forces have carried out incursions, checkpoints, and searches in villages around Abidin and Maariya

On Sunday 21 Jun 2026, Israeli occupation forces pushed into the Yarmouk Basin in southern Syria early on Sunday, raiding homes near the village of Abidin in the latest in a series of near-daily incursions that have transformed the country's south since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad.

On June 28, 2026, residents of Abidin prevented Israeli soldiers from advancing deeper into their village by throwing stones and blocking the entrances with rocks. A Syrian journalist crew covering the event was directly targeted by Israeli troops’ gunfire. In the evening, Israeli aircraft flew over the village at low altitude. Flares were launched, and artillery shelling began to hit the village.

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