10/12/2025
🚨 IMMEDIATE SECURITY ALERT IN JERUSALEM REGION AS ISRAEL–SYRIA TENSIONS RISE AND IDF TIGHTENS STORM SAFETY RULES
🕑 December 10, 2025 - 9:00 PM
🚨 A real-time warning has been issued about a potential threat moving within the wider Jerusalem region, including the Beit Shemesh area. Residents are urged to stay alert and report any suspicious individuals to the police immediately.
According to updated information, security forces have now shifted the main search effort to the Beitar and Bethlehem area. The Beit Shemesh sector, which was a primary focus earlier, is currently receiving less attention as forces concentrate on the new search zone.
⚠️ Amid the stormy weather brought by Storm Byron, which hit Israel overnight after battering Greece and Cyprus, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has issued strict safety guidelines across the military. From tonight at 8:00 PM until at least Friday at 6:00 AM, soldiers will not be allowed to leave their bases for weekend furlough.
All outdoor training on foot or in vehicles is prohibited unless specifically authorized by a major general. Navigation, camouflage exercises, and similar drills are forbidden during this period. Overnight stays outside are banned unless they are required for “operational needs” and approved by the relevant regional division commander.
Routine security activities are being scaled back to “essential activities” only. Other operational movement on foot or in vehicles is also restricted to essential travel, with logistical movements requiring authorization from a colonel or corps commander. The guidelines are in effect until Friday at 6:00 AM and may be updated based on ongoing situation assessments.
⚔ Israeli Defense Minister Katz, responding to a question on whether he considers Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa a terrorist, said: “One of the regional leaders told me that Jolani (al-Sharaa) is over forty years old. After this age, we don't change much. He is, essentially, a terrorist. And we must be ready for any development.”
🔸 Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli stated that “war with Syria is inevitable,” highlighting the growing sense of confrontation between Jerusalem and Damascus.
🇸🇾 A Syrian source told the Israeli Broadcasting Authority that the chants in support of Gaza and against Israel during a military parade in Damascus reflect rising hostility among the Syrian public, which they attribute to continued Israeli attacks in Syria. According to the source, “Israel is creating a new enemy here.”
Another Syrian source told the Israeli Broadcasting Authority that, following the attention the incident received in Israel, an investigation has been opened. The source said the soldiers’ conduct was “contrary to protocol,” but argued that “the matter has been exaggerated.”
🔹 Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar warned that the gap between Israel and Syria over a security arrangement has widened. Syria has presented new demands, and as a result, Saar said, Israel is now “farther from reaching an agreement with Syria compared to a few weeks ago.”
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