— 🇮🇱/🇸🇾/🇱🇧 So, basically 4 reasons that could explain this Israeli maneuver:

1. They want to flank Hezbollah and enter Lebanon from the East, which would mean the continuation of the war in Lebanon & a massive level of escalation not seen before.

2. They want to cut off 'Highway 1', the Damascus-Beirut Highway, in order to stop shipments of Iranian weapons to Hezbollah through Syria, which is unlikely considering that HTS / SNA will probably not allow these shipments regardless. But maybe Israel simply distrusts the rebels to that extent & want to make sure on their own.

3. They for some reason want to capture Damascus. At that point it would just be a plain 'landgrab' to expand Greater Israel, they have no legitimate reason to do this. Even the West would almost certainly condemn it.

4. They're just trolling everyone by advancing along the Lebanese border & near Damascus, and in reality they only care about establishing a security zone or a Druze state in the South of Syria in Daraa & Suwayda. (Or, in real terms, they want to be positioned near Lebanon 'JUST IN CASE' they need to carry out point 1. or 2.)

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— 🇺🇸/🇬🇧/🇸🇾 NEW: The Washington Post reports that U.S. officials are considering removing Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from the list of foreign terrorist organizations

The UK government is also open to the idea, but Prime Minister Keir Starmer states that a change in policy now is 'far too early.'

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— 🇮🇱/🇸🇾/🇸🇾 Israeli troops inside Quneitra's government office, in front of a portrait of President Assad

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— 🇸🇾/ 🇸🇾 BREAKING: Mass executions and cleansing of ethnic & religious minorities by HTS and SNA terrorist in Syria have started – we will share here some of the footage

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— (18+) 🇸🇾 🏴 WATCH: HTS terrorists with ISIS patches execute Alawites in Latakia

Location: Al Rabiah Farm, Latakia Countryside.

Men in the video shout 'Allahu Akbar, these are the Nusayris (Alawites), the pigs.' They proceed to execute the two men.

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— (18+) 🇸🇾/ 🇸🇾 WATCH: Fighters of the 'moderate' SNA execute two Kurdish SDF soldiers in their hospital beds in Manbij

Location: Hospital inside Manbij City.

Three armed men of the Turkish-backed SNA enter the hospital room and ask the wounded men if they are SDF soldiers, they say yes. They proceed to execute them.

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— (18+) 🇸🇾 WATCH: HTS terrorists execute two Alawites in Homs City street

Location: Unclear, presumably Homs City.

HTS terrorist inside a car points his pistol at two Alawites. He says: 'These are Nusayri (Alawite) pigs, disbelievers! Allahu Akbar!'. He proceeds to shoot the two men, who are blindfolded, as the others cheer him on.

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— 🇸🇾 WATCH: An extremist group calling itself 'Maghawir al-Sham' entered religious minority villages in Homs countryside, and 'cleansed' them from Alawites

In the video, the individual is heard saying: 'Allahu Akbar, Maghawir al-Sham! The Nusayri (Alawite) village has been cleansed.'

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— 🇸🇾/ 🇸🇾 NEW: HTS is preparing to publicly execute a former SAA officer in Hama City

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— 🇸🇾/🇸🇾 WATCH: HTS desecrated the grave of Hafez al-Assad in Qardaha, Latakia Governorate, and stepped on his coffin

HTS is allegedly planning on exhuming the body of Hafez al-Assad and burying it somewhere unknown or burning it, because he was a 'disbeliever'.

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