🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 — Syrian Observatory:
60 Israeli raids on Syria within hours

🇮🇱❌🇮🇪 — Israeli foreign minister announces closure of Israeli embassy in Ireland due to 'Anti-Israel Policy'

🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 — Israeli government approves plans to expand settlements in Golan Heights

🇸🇾❌🇮🇱🇮🇱 — Israel's prime minister Netanyahu:

➡️We will continue to control and settle in the Golan.

➡️The government unanimously approved encouraging population growth in Golan settlements at a cost of more than $40 million.

🇸🇾🇮🇷🇱🇧❌🇮🇱🇮🇱 — Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

I said a year ago that we would change the Middle East, and we are already changing it. Syria is not what it was, Lebanon has changed, Gaza has changed, and even Iran - the head of the axis - is not what it was.

🇸🇾⁉️🇮🇱🇮🇱 — Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

➡️We have no interest in conflict with Syria, but we will determine our policy based on the changing reality.

➡️In recent days, we have destroyed capabilities that the Assad regime built over decades to prevent the use of dangerous weapons against us again.

🇱🇧❌🇮🇱🇮🇱 — Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

➡️We targeted the weapons transfer routes from Syria to Hezbollah, and the Secretary-General of Hezbollah admitted the loss of the military supply route through Syria.

➡️We are committed to preventing Hezbollah from rearming.

➡️We will continue to act against Iran and Hezbollah in every arena and at any time to prevent them from harming us.

🇸🇾 — New de facto president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa (al-Jolani), in a press interview:

➡️There will be no compulsory connoscription in the country

➡️We will study raising salaries by 400% in Syria, and the first priorities are to rebuild destroyed homes and return the displaced.

➡️All factions will be dissolved and there will be no weapons except in the hands of the state.

🇸🇾🇸🇾 — The Military Recruitment Administration (affiliated with HTS) has announced the opening of enrollment for training and membership in the faction.

➡️This comes despite a statement earlier today by HTS leader and de facto Syrian president Abu Mohammad al-Golani, who declared that all factions would be dissolved and that weapons would be centralized under state control. However, HTS appears to be continuing its expansion and consolidation of power.

📝My opinion: It seems Golani might be modeling HTS after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which played a crucial role in consolidating power after the Iranian Revolution. This approach contrasts with the first Iranian revolution, which ultimately failed.

🇺🇸🇮🇱😘🇵🇸❌🇵🇸 — 📰Axios quoting officials:

➡️The Biden administration asked Israel to approve US military assistance for the security of the Authority in the West Bank.

➡️The operation focuses on a local armed group.

➡️The operation carried out by the PA security is a decisive moment for the Palestinian Authority.

➡️US aid to PA security forces aims to support its extensive operation in the West Bank.

➡️The operation is driven by fear of an attempt by Islamic extremists to overthrow the government, influenced by what happened in Syria.

🇺🇸🇮🇱😘🇵🇸❌🇵🇸— 📰Axios quoting officials:

➡️Palestinian "president" Abbas ordered security leaders to launch an operation to control Jenin and its camp, and some expressed reservations.

➡️Abbas's aides briefed the Biden administration and President-elect Trump's advisers in advance on the operation.

➡️US Security Coordinator Mike Finzel met with PA security leaders before the operation to review their plans.

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — Israel bombed a school where displaced families have been staying at.