Israeli special forces carried out a predawn helicopter-borne raid on 4 July at a former Syrian Republican Guard facility in Yaafour, roughly 10 kilometres west of Damascus. Local reports said three helicopters inserted troops who searched the compound for about five hours before departing without open confrontation. Simultaneously, armoured Israeli vehicles crossed into Rakhla on the Lebanese frontier and into two villages in Syria’s southwestern Daraa province. The moves, described by regional media as the first such incursions in these areas, ended without reported casualties or official Syrian comment. Two days later, the Israel Defense Forces announced that soldiers from the 810th “Mountain” Brigade, supported by the elite Yahalom engineering unit, demolished several abandoned Syrian military outposts on Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights. The army said the positions posed a direct threat and that the operation formed part of broader pre-emptive measures along the border. Taken together, the actions highlight a widening Israeli ground footprint inside Syria amid continued security friction in the aftermath of the Assad government’s collapse. No international reaction or assessment of potential escalation had been issued at the time of publication.