Israeli entry with dozens of vehicles into the Quneitra countryside.

Arab Sea Newspaper - Special

**Arab Sea - Agencies:** The Internal Security Command in Tartus Governorate launched a security campaign targeting what it described as "dens belonging to terrorist cells outside the law," while Israeli forces continued their incursion into southern Syria, where dozens of vehicles loaded with Israeli forces entered the village of Al-Asha in the Quneitra countryside. Meanwhile, the Syrian Foreign Ministry affirmed on Saturday evening its commitment to revealing the fate of the missing and ensuring justice, especially after the establishment of the Syrian National Authority for the Missing, to address this file with an independent reference. The Syrian Ministry of Interior said in a statement that these cells are involved in carrying out terrorist attacks on elements and sites belonging to the Internal Security Forces. It indicated that the latest attacks by these cells was targeting an Internal Security patrol at one of the entrances to the city of Tartus on August 18, which resulted in the martyrdom of two members. The ministry clarified that the security campaign is still ongoing. On the other hand, on Saturday, dozens of vehicles loaded with Israeli forces entered the village of Al-Asha in the Quneitra countryside, and proceeded to search a number of sites and homes. Sources added that these forces began to withdraw and return to the occupied Golan after a few hours. In another context, the Syrian Foreign Ministry affirmed on Saturday its commitment to revealing the fate of the missing and ensuring justice, especially after the establishment of the Syrian National Authority for the Missing, to address this file with an independent reference. The Foreign Ministry stressed in a statement on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, which is celebrated on August 30 of each year: that the perpetrators of war crimes and gross violations of human rights will not escape accountability, and that justice will remain the basis for any real treatment of this file. In addition, dozens of families left their homes on Saturday in a neighborhood inhabited by a majority of Alawites near Damascus, after militants threatened its members to leave their homes and properties, according to what residents told Agence France-Presse. The Syrian Observatory reported that an armed faction stormed the Al-Sumaria neighborhood, located west of Damascus, on Thursday, threatening residents belonging to the Alawite sect to evacuate their homes within two days without allowing them to take their belongings. The Observatory reported that evacuation operations took place on Thursday and Friday, accompanied by violence and intimidation through the use of electric batons to force residents to leave, causing a state of chaos and fear among the people, prompting many of them to flee while others remained stranded. The Al-Sumaria neighborhood is inhabited by a few thousand people, most of whom are from the Alawite sect, some of whom live in housing for discharged and retired officers in the former regime's army. At a time when the official media did not address this matter, "Syria TV," which is close to the authorities, said that the neighborhood's Mukhtar and residents officially informed by the Ministries of Defense and Interior that residents are allowed to stay in their homes and those who left can return, following the intervention of the neighborhood committee and the Supreme Committee for Civil Peace, which followed up on the file with the concerned authorities.