ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Israeli forces detained at least seven individuals after invading a town in southwest Syria’s Quneitra province, reported Syrian state media on Wednesday.

According to Syria’s state broadcaster, the Israeli military penetrated a village in the Jubata al-Khashab town, in the northern countryside of Quneitra, with a convoy consisting of 16 vehicles, establishing a barrier and inspecting a number of houses in the area on Tuesday night.

The forces detained seven Syrian nationals, raising the toll of individuals arrested by the Israeli military in Quneitra to at least 34 since the fall of the Assad regime.

In late August, the Israeli military announced they had arrested several individuals under the pretext of suspicion of involvement “in advancing terrorist activities against IDF [Israeli military] troops in southern Syria.”

The Israeli military have in recent weeks launched several incursions in the countrysides of Damascus and Quneitra.

The Syrian foreign ministry has strongly condemned the Israeli attacks and incursions into Syrian territory, slamming their “illegal presence” in parts of the country.

The ministry called on the international community and the UN Security Council to “assume its legal and moral responsibilities in putting an end to these repeated attacks,” urging them to compel Israeli authorities to “cease their ongoing violations against Syria.”

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz in December ordered the Israeli forces to complete the takeover of the 1974 buffer zone in the Golan Heights, separating the two states.

The buffer zone was established by the 1974 Disengagement Agreement between the two countries, which was signed following a battle to establish a ceasefire and limit military mobilization on both sides. Israel claims that, with the fall of the Assad regime, the agreement is considered void until the restoration of order in Syria.

Israel has repeatedly launched airstrikes against Syria since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, nominally to destroy weapons caches and protect the minority Druze community that has been the target of sectarian massacres at the hands of armed forces affiliated with the new Damascus government.

Syria’s Foreign Minister Assad al-Shaibani met with Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer in Paris on August 20 to request the Israeli government to cease its interference in Syrian affairs, as well as the military incursions, according to a statement from the ministry.

In April, head of UN Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix accused Israel of violating the 1974 agreement, calling for “ending all unauthorized presence in the areas of separation and limitation.”