Israeli soldiers questioned several suspected arms dealers and seized weapons during an overnight raid in southern Syria, the military said Sunday morning.

Troops of the 226th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade and field interrogators of the Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 operated in the Druze town of Hader, just across the border.

The Israel Defense Forces said information gathered during the questioning of suspected arms dealers, along with prior intelligence, led the troops to four sites in the area where weapons were being stored.

The soldiers raided the sites simultaneously and seized “numerous weapons that the suspects had been trafficking,” the army said.

Israel has been involved militarily in Syria since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024. In the immediate aftermath, Israel occupied Syria’s demilitarized zone and destroyed most of the Assad military’s facilities in a widespread bombing campaign.

Since the fall of the Assad regime, the IDF has been deployed to nine posts inside southern Syria, mostly within the UN-patrolled buffer zone.

Troops have been operating in areas up to around 15 kilometers deep into Syria, aiming to capture weapons that Israel says could pose a threat to the country if they fall into the hands of “hostile forces.”

In recent months, the IDF said ground troops had conducted over 300 “routine operations” in southern Syria, including arresting suspected terror operatives, preventing “enemy entrenchment,” and thwarting arms smuggling to Lebanon.

The military has also been operating a medical facility next to Hader to treat the Druze residents of the town and other Syrians. The “forward mobile triage” site was established in May. It was closed due to the war in Iran in June, as the forces operating it were diverted to other tasks, and reopened last month.

The military has also been constructing a barrier, dubbed “New East,” along the Israeli-Syrian border, which resembles a trench to prevent the crossing of vehicles.

In July, the IDF conducted airstrikes on Syrian government forces to support Syrian Druze — who have close relations with Israel’s Druze community — amid violent clashes in the Sweida area of southern Syria.