An Israeli officer was seriously injured on Monday due to an explosion of unknown cause near what the Israeli army described as one of its sites in southern Syria.

The Israeli occupation army announced the officer’s injury in a statement, confirming he was transferred to a hospital for treatment, without specifying the exact location of the explosion.

Israeli military sources said in a press briefing that an investigation into the source of the explosion is ongoing.

This development comes a day after an Israeli army force infiltrated the village of Saida in the Quneitra countryside in southern Syria on Sunday, according to the official Syrian news channel.

The channel explained that an Israeli force consisting of 15 vehicles loaded with Israeli soldiers entered the village and conducted surveys in several neighborhoods under the pretext of providing aid to the residents, before withdrawing after searching homes without achieving any tangible results.

The residents rejected the aid and expressed their condemnation of the military presence in their village.

The Israeli army did not announce the reasons or objectives of this incursion, nor was there an immediate response from the Syrian side.

Since the fall of the Assad regime on December 8, 2024, Israeli violations of Syria’s sovereignty have escalated through shelling and expanding their occupation of lands in the south.

Since 1967, Israel has occupied most of the Syrian Golan Heights and exploited the new situation after the fall of the Assad regime by occupying the Syrian buffer zone, declaring the collapse of the disengagement agreement between the two sides in 1974.