Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Jake Sullivan, says IDF to stay in Syria until this happens

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today (Thursday) with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. They discussed a number of vital regional issues, especially pertaining to vital issues in Syria.

The Prime Minister told Sullivan that do to immediate and pressing security needs, he and the government ordered the IDF to cross the 1974 separation of forces boundary between Israel and Syria and take control of it until an "effective force" can come in to replace them and secure the border.

Netanyahu also stressed the importance of protecting minorities in Syria - possibly specifically in reference to the Kurds and the Druze, traditional friends of Israel - and the need to prevent terrorist activity from within Syria itself.

In the meantime, the IDF has been continuing their air strikes against any and all sites containing strategic weapons that once belonged to Bashar Assad's now defunct army, with the aim of denying them to potential hostile actors.