Netanyahu's secret call with Jolani+ details This was a direct warning Damascus reaction

An election revelation re-opened "Tale al-Suwayda"; Netanyahu recounted the details of his contact with al-Julani and revealed the dimensions of the intervention that changed the equations of control in this province.

According to Ambassador Arjan, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the framework of his current election campaign, revealed that he made a secret phone call with Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of the rebels ruling Damascus, who introduces himself as the head of Syria's transitional period.

According to Netanyahu, this call was made during the bloody massacres of al-Suwayda province in July 2025. This news was published during the Likud party's election conference in the Druze city of Yerka. This is the first time that the news of establishing such a connection between an Israeli prime minister and a head of the Syrian government is published publicly.

According to Netanyahu, this conversation included a direct warning to Al-Sharia about the necessity of retreating the forces that attacked al-Suwayda; The warning followed earlier indirect messages - which Netanyahu said were "not understood by the Islamic State".

Netanyahu threatened Jolani in a phone call

Israeli channel i24NEWS revealed in a report that the call was made on July 16, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. . In this conversation, Netanyahu first tells al-Jolani that he intends to speak briefly, noting that the previous message - which was sent through intermediaries - was not received as it should have been.

According to this network, the Prime Minister of Israel said: "Genocide against the Druze is going on; Your forces must withdraw from al-Suwayda by 10 p.m.

Netanyahu also threatened to intensify attacks if this demand is not met.

According to this report, al-Jolani requested a 48-hour deadline to manage the developments in the province, but Netanyahu rejected this request, saying: "This is unacceptable; First withdraw your forces."

This call was made only two hours before the extensive Israeli air strikes on the presidential palace and the army headquarters in Damascus; The attacks took place in the suburbs of al-Suwayda at the same time as the intensification of the bombing of the positions of the groups loyal to the rebel government ruling Damascus. According to the statistics of the Syrian "Committee of Inquiry", which was formed by the order of Al-Jolani, during these massacres, 1,760 people lost their lives, the majority of whom were from the Druze community.

After the publication of this news, the officials of the Syrian transitional government did not deny Netanyahu's statements, the ambassador of Syria Arjan (SANA) only, citing a government source, accused Israel of trying to "arm illegal militias" during the events of July 2025 to create chaos and drag the country towards a large-scale war.

The source claimed that the al-Jolani government "succeeded in thwarting this plan, although Israeli strikes prevented the government from effectively intervening."

He also pointed out that Syria is working with the United States and Jordan to implement a "road map" to return al-Suwayda to the government. However, this response—provided by an anonymous official source—completely ignored the subject of the call itself; A problem that can be interpreted as an implicit acceptance of the occurrence of such a call.

From "Trap" to changing power equations

Netanyahu's claim presents a complete picture of what the foreign minister of the al-Jolani government, Asad al-Shibani, previously called "Tale al-Suwayda". Ambassador Arjan's report also confirmed that Damascus thought it had received a green light from the US and Israel to deploy its forces in the south, but in the end, its calculations about Israel's reaction to the attack on al-Suwayda were wrong.

Regardless of the electoral exploitation that Netanyahu was looking for on the eve of the upcoming elections, the disclosure of these communications will reveal the chain of events that occurred before, at the same time as, and after the al-Suwayda killings.

The impact of Israel's intervention did not end there; This intervention led to handing over the security management of al-Suwayda to local Druze factions and leaders and deepened the gap between them and Damascus.

More dangerously, this evolution has turned Israel from a power that, by occupying a part of Syria's territory, carried out its attacks from outside those borders, to an actor that is now present in the internal equations of this province; A province that was out of Israel's reach for decades.

Israel is now able to prevent any deployment of government forces in al-Suwayda and impose its conditions on the future of the entire southern region.