Israeli official issues stark warning after chilling Syrian military war chants surface

A radical of soldiers of the Syrian service was documented chanting a jihadi declaration of warfare connected Israel during a subject parade successful Damascus connected Tuesday, prompting a curate for the Jewish authorities to contented a chilling prediction.

Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs, posted connected X, "War is inevitable." Chikli embedded a video from Visegrád 24 showed Syria’s caller service marching done Damascus. Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa attended the subject parade.

The footage, according to Fox News Digital’s autarkic verification of the Arabic, showed them chanting "Gaza, Gaza, our rallying cry, Victory and steadfastness, nighttime & day. We emergence against you, enemy, we rise. From mountains of occurrence we marque our way. From my humor I forge my ammunition. From your blood, rivers volition flow."

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Military unit execute during a subject parade, arsenic Syrians people the archetypal day of Bashar al-Assad's fall, successful Damascus, Syria, Dec. 8, 2025. (Khalil Ashawi/Retuers)

In a connection to Fox News Digital astir his posts connected X, Chikli said, "The harrowing testimonies coming from our Druze brothers astir what is happening successful Sweida permission nary doubt. A authorities that kills similar ISIS, rapes similar ISIS, and destroys similar ISIS everything that is not itself — it is ISIS, adjacent if it wears a suit and plays basketball."

The Trump medication is pushing for a information woody betwixt Syria and Israel that would stabilize the heartland of the Middle East. Al-Sharaa met with Trump successful the White House past month.

Speaking astatine a Jerusalem Post league connected Wednesday successful Washington, D.C., Tom Barrack, who is U.S. ambassador to Turkey and peculiar envoy to Syria, said Damascus is not funny successful aggression toward Israel, according to the newspaper.

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Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa delivers a code connected the archetypal day of Bashar al-Assad's fall, successful Damascus, Syria Dec. 8, 2025. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)

"Syria joining the anti-ISIS conjugation was unthinkable not agelong ago." Barrack said the U.S. and Syria person eliminated 9 Hezbollah cells and respective Islamic State cells implicit the past fewer weeks. "After Oct. 7, Israel doesn’t spot anyone," helium said astatine the event, adding "That’s wherefore we’ve offered to service arsenic a peacekeeping force. Verification replaces trust."  

Barrack claimed Jerusalem sees Syria arsenic "the softest play" successful the analyzable Mideast information situation. "Syria has nary alternate path," helium said. "And neither does Israel, if it wants to debar perpetual subject confrontation connected each border." He said the Abraham Accords, which normalized diplomatic relations betwixt mean Sunni states United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Israel, could beryllium expanded to Syria.

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack, speaks during a property league aft his gathering with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun astatine the statesmanlike palace, successful Baabda, eastbound of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025.  (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

The Associated Press reported that al-Sharaa said astatine a league implicit the play successful Qatar that "There are presently negotiations, and the United States is participating and engaged successful those negotiations."

The Syrian president wants Israel to retreat its forces from Syria and recommit to a 1974 truce agreement.

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Israeli forces unafraid the country astir Beit Jann aft detaining 2 suspects and coming nether occurrence successful 1 of the astir superior clashes connected the Syrian beforehand this year. (IDF) (IDF)

Israel says it seized the 400-square-kilometer (155-square-mile) demilitarized buffer portion successful confederate Syria successful a preemptive determination to forestall militants from moving into the country aft Islamist insurgents toppled Assad.

Israeli troops person regularly carried retired operations successful villages and towns wrong and extracurricular the zone, including raids snatching radical it says are suspected militants. At slightest 13 people were killed in an Israeli cognition against suspected terrorists past month.

When questioned astir his grounds arsenic an al Qaeda subordinate (the U.S. scrapped its $10 cardinal bounty for al-Sharaa’s apprehension for coercion past year) astatine the Doha Forum successful Qatar, the Syrian president said: "What is the explanation of coercion oregon a terrorist? Saying that I was a violent and judging maine arsenic a violent is politicized… we saw wars successful Afghanistan, successful Iraq — each of those that were killed were innocent."

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He added that "Judging radical arsenic terrorists needs to beryllium proven. There’s been 25 years of america proceeding this connection successful the world, but there’s a batch of disorder successful knowing the connection ‘terrorist.’ Terrorists, successful my opinion, are those who termination guiltless radical — children and women — and who usage illegitimate means to harm people." He noted that helium fought "honorably."

Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, told Fox News Digital, "The ongoing information concern successful Syria is of the utmost complexity. Israel and Syria, nether U.S. mediation, are successful highly intensive talks to scope a ceremonial information statement betwixt the 2 countries, portion the Iranian authorities and its proxies are engaging successful equipped subversion to forestall immoderate imaginable statement betwixt the sides. The United States, CIA and subject forces are reportedly profoundly progressive successful securing and stabilizing the concern successful Syria, which accounts for President Trump’s caller statements to Israel successful helping support the model successful Syria."

He added, "It indispensable beryllium emphasized that Iran’s Hezbollah proxy and associated cells and groups are doing everything to torpedo a information statement betwixt the al-Sharaa authorities and the Israeli government. The Iranian authorities and associated panic groups tried to assassinate al-Sharaa respective times. They are mobilizing panic cells successful confederate Syria and sending them toward the Israeli border, which is what has triggered ongoing Israeli counterterrorism strikes, conscionable similar we saw successful Bet Jinn."

An Israeli service Merkava main conflict vessel crosses the barbed-wire obstruction into the U.N.-patrolled buffer portion separating Israeli and Syrian forces successful the Golan Heights adjacent the U.N. Quneitra checkpoint connected March 2, 2025.  ( Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu precocious visited reserve soldiers who were wounded successful clashes with Syrian terrorists successful Bet Jinn, wherever helium said, "After Oct. 7, we are determined to support our communities connected our borders, including the bluish border, and to forestall the entrenchment of terrorists and hostile actions against us, to support our Druze allies, and to guarantee that the State of Israel is harmless from crushed onslaught and different attacks from the borderline areas."

He added, "What we expect Syria to do, of course, is to found a demilitarized buffer portion from Damascus to the buffer portion area, including the approaches to Mount Hermon and the acme of Mount Hermon. We clasp these territories to guarantee the information of the citizens of Israel, and that is what obligates us. In a bully tone and knowing of these principles, it is besides imaginable to scope an statement with the Syrians, but we volition basal by our principles successful immoderate case."