Israel At War Friday December 6

 Israel at war day 427

-N12 is reporting that the IDF attacked the Assad regime's chemical weapons stockpiles - so that it would not get into the hands of the rebels in the places they managed to conquer.

- Israel is said to be preparing for the possibility that the Syrian army may collapse in the face of rapidly advancing rebel forces, Israel has been surprised by the weakness of the Syrian army, as it continues to swiftly lose ground to the jihadist-led fighters. The IDF is afraid of events that may get out of control and lead to a rapprochement of the border and the infiltration of rebel forces.

- IDF: In light of the developments in the internal fighting in Syria, it was decided to reinforce air and ground forces in the sector of the Golan Heights. IDF forces are deployed in the border area and increase their capacity and readiness according to the various scenarios.

- IDF eliminated Majdi Akelian senior commanders in the Shati Battalion in Hamss; he commanded the massacre in Nachal Oz on 10/7

- The IDF intercepted a suspicious UAV in Israel's North on Friday morning, following sirens in Kfar Yuval, Kfar Szold and Ma'ayan Baruch. The details are being investigated. This comes despite the ceasefire agreement made between Israel and Hezbollah at the end of November.

- Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, the leader of the terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which leads the rebels in Syria, in an unusual interview with CNN: "The Assad regime is dead. We will establish an institutional government based on the people's council, not on a single ruler who makes arbitrary decisions."

- Who would Israel least like to see parked on its border with Syria: Iranian-backed Shia jihadist extremists or Turkish-backed Sunni jihadists?

Since the answer is neither, Israel’s approach to the developments in Syria will be to stay out of the melee as long as its security interests are not directly or immediately threatened. As Yitzhak Shamir was once quoted as having said during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s – when two of the Jewish state’s fiercest enemies were weakening each other – Israel can “wish both sides success.”(Jpost)