Tel Aviv: Israel is using all its intelligence sources to closely watch the attacks by the jihadist rebels’ against the regime of Syrian president Bashar Assad.
Israeli sources said that the immediate concerns are related to the stockpile of chemical weapons in the possession of the regime. If this stockpile falls into the hands of the Jihadist rebels, it will, according to Israeli sources, “create a totally new situation that will require Israeli action”.
As reported by Raksha Anirveda, Israel knows that Syria is still hiding a big stockpile of chemical weapons and that these can get into the hands of terror organisations. While Israel has again and again pointed to that danger, the US and Europe have not taken action.
The Israeli intelligence organisations believe that Syria has kept a stockpile of chemical weapons. This after claiming that it destroyed all sorts of poisonous gases. Israeli sources say that the US is aware of this Syrian violation of UN resolution but has decided not to act.
According to the Begin – Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies in Israel, there have been concerns among international observers that Syria has restarted its chemical program. “The regime led by Syrian President Bashar Assad has repeatedly used chemical weapons against its own Sunni citizens to conduct mass slaughter throughout the civil war,” the report says.
The US has been briefed by Israel about the chemical weapons in Syria.
According to a report prepared by the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Bashar al-Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons, mainly chlorine, dozens of times since the American missile strike on the al-Shuayrat airbase in Syria in April 2017. However, the chemical weapons attack on civilians in Duma (apparently chlorine mixed with nerve gas) by the regime on April 7, 2018 was the attack that drove US President Donald Trump to launch a military operation on April 14, in conjunction with Britain.
Israeli intelligence have repeatedly said that Syria keeps a stockpile of different chemical weapons.
-The writer is an Israel-based freelance journalist. The views expressed are of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of Raksha Anirveda
