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A group of Syrian Army soldiers were seen making a jihadist declaration of war on Israel during a military parade in Damascus on Tuesday, prompting a minister of the Jewish state to issue a shocking prediction.
“War is inevitable,” Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli posted on Twitter. Chikli embedded a video from Visegrad 24 showing Syria’s new army marching through Damascus. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa attended the military parade.
The footage shows him singing “Gaza, Gaza, our rallying cry, victory and perseverance, night and day,” according to Fox News Digital’s independent verification of Arabic. We rise against you, enemy, we rise. We make our way through the mountains of fire. With my blood I make my ammunition. Rivers will flow with your blood.”
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Military personnel demonstrate during a military parade by Syrians to mark the first anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Syria on December 8, 2025. (Cast Ashshire/Ost)
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The Trump administration is pushing for a security agreement between Syria and Israel that would stabilize the heartland of the Middle East. Al-Shara met Trump at the White House last month.
Speaking at the Jerusalem Post conference in Washington DC on Wednesday, Tom Barrack, who is the US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria, said that Damascus has no interest in aggression towards Israel, according to the newspaper.
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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa delivers a speech on the first anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Syria on December 8, 2025. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)
“Syria joining the anti-ISIS coalition was unthinkable until recently.” Barrack said the US and Syria have destroyed nine Hezbollah cells and several Islamic State cells in the past few weeks. “After October 7, Israel doesn’t trust anyone,” he said in the program. “That’s why we have offered to serve as a peacekeeping force. Verification replaces trust,” he said.
Barrack claimed that Jerusalem sees Syria as “the softest game” in the complex Middle East security situation. “Syria has no alternative path,” he said. “And neither will Israel, if it wants to avoid perpetual military confrontation on every border.” He said the Abraham Accords, which normalized diplomatic relations between the moderate Sunni states of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Israel, could be extended to Syria.
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack speaks during a press conference after his meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussain Malla)
The Associated Press reported that al-Sharaa told a conference in Qatar over the weekend that “negotiations are currently ongoing, and the United States is participating and engaged in those negotiations.”
The Syrian president wants Israel to withdraw its forces from Syria and recommit to the 1974 armistice agreements.
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Israeli forces secured the area around Beit Jannah after detaining two suspects and coming under fire in one of the most serious clashes on the Syrian front this year. (IDF) (IDF)
Israel says it seized a 400 square kilometer (155 square mile) demilitarized buffer zone in southern Syria as a precautionary measure to prevent militants from moving into the area after Islamist rebels ousted Assad.
Israeli troops have conducted regular operations in villages and towns inside and outside the area, including raids seizing people they say are suspected terrorists. At least 13 people were killed in an Israeli operation against suspected terrorists last month.
When questioned at the Doha Forum in Qatar about his record as a member of al Qaeda (the US had last year revoked its $10 million reward for al-Sharaa’s capture for terrorism) the Syrian president said: “What is the definition of terrorism or a terrorist? To say I was a terrorist and judge me as a terrorist is politicization… We saw the war in Afghanistan, in Iraq – the people who died were all innocent.”
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He said that “people need to be proven as terrorists. It has been 25 years since we heard this word in the world, but there is a lot of confusion in understanding the word ‘terrorist’.” In my opinion, terrorists are those who kill innocent people – children and women – and who use illegitimate means to harm people.” He said he fought “honourably”.
Dan Dicker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, told Fox News Digital, “The ongoing security situation in Syria is extremely complex. Israel and Syria, under U.S. mediation, are conducting extremely intensive negotiations to reach a formal security arrangement between the two countries, while the Iranian regime and its proxies are engaging in armed subversion to prevent any potential agreement between the parties. The United States, CIA, and military forces are reportedly working to secure and “Deeply involved in stabilization, which is due to President Trump’s recent statements to help maintain the structure in Syria.”
He further added, “It should be emphasized that Iran’s Hezbollah proxies and related cells and groups are doing everything they can to torpedo a security arrangement between the al-Sharaa government and the Israeli government. The Iranian regime and related terrorist groups tried several times to assassinate al-Sharaa. They are organizing terrorist cells in southern Syria and sending them towards the Israeli border, which has triggered Israeli anti-terrorist attacks, as we have bet Saw in the jinn.”
An Israeli Army Merkava main battle tank crosses a barbed wire fence in the UN-patrolled buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights near the UN Quneitra checkpoint on March 2, 2025. (Under Mary/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently met with reserve soldiers wounded in clashes with Syrian militants in Bet Jinn, where he said, “After October 7, we are determined to protect our communities on our borders, including the northern border, and to protect our Druze allies, to stop terrorists and hostile actions against us, and to ensure that the State of Israel is safe from ground attack and other attacks from the border areas.”
He added, “Of course, what we expect from Syria is to establish a demilitarized buffer zone from Damascus to the buffer zone area, including Mount Hermon and access to the summit of Mount Hermon. We occupy these areas to ensure the safety of Israeli citizens, and that is what obliges us. In the good spirit and understanding of these principles, it is also possible to reach an agreement with the Syrians, but we will stick to our principles in any case.”
