After co-opting Druze militia leaders, Israel plans to end the Syrian State as we know it.

"We demand the complete demilitarization of southern Syria in the provinces of Quneitra, Daraa and Suwayda from the forces of the new regime. Likewise, we will not tolerate any threat to the Druze community in southern Syria", Netanyahu announced on Sunday. His calls were denounced by the new Syrian transitional government's President, Ahmed al-Shara'a (also known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani), who also heads Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), formerly Al-Qaeda's offshoot in Syria.

Within the first twenty-four hours of the former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's ousting, the Israeli military scrapped the 1974 disengagement treaty with Damascus. It proceeded to occupy more Syrian lands while launching its largest-ever air campaign that destroyed the country's military. In response to this, Syria's new leadership initially responded by offering Israel an olive branch and even floating the idea of normalization with Tel Aviv.