During a high-level security meeting at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Wednesday night, a senior military official issued a stark warning: "We must not trust the Syrian regime. We need to remain highly suspicious of them."
The warning came amid discussions on Israel's operations to halt attacks on the Druze community in Syria, as well as recent US-imposed limitations. A top defense official emphasized during the meeting, "Atrocities and massacres were committed there, and only our actions stopped them." Addressing Netanyahu directly, the official said that the prime minister's initiatives had led Bashar al-Assad's regime to back down.
The discussion also covered the ongoing fighting in Gaza and Hamas' starvation propaganda campaign against Israel. Military officials noted that aid trucks are reaching all areas of the Strip in significant numbers.
As Hamas reportedly works to obstruct aid distribution by the American humanitarian organization operating food centers, a military source said, "The centers are becoming increasingly efficient. There is no hunger in Gaza. They took an image from Yemen and passed it off as if it were from Gaza."
Meanwhile, the US-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) offered to transport UN humanitarian aid into Gaza at no charge. The offer followed aerial footage released by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, showing 950 aid trucks loaded with approximately 2,500 tons of food stranded on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, not reaching those in need.
According to media reports, UN organizations, including the World Food Programme and others, are struggling to distribute aid in the Strip, as convoys are repeatedly looted and seized.
The GHF proposal came in a letter sent by its chairman, Johnnie Moore, to UN Deputy Secretary-General Tom Fletcher, reaffirming the foundation's willingness to cooperate with the UN and its partners to prevent further aid abandonment and restore a transparent, functioning supply chain.
"Our door is open," the letter read. "We are ready to help deliver the UN's aid to Gaza residents safely and responsibly, but time is running out. People are starving while food waits. We cannot let politics block the way."
