Amos Gilad, the policy director at the Israeli Defence Ministry is warning that Syria has a huge stockpile of chemical weapons and that they need to be kept secure to prevent them falling into the hands of al-Qaeda or Hezbollah.
He told HARDtalk's Zeinab Badawi that Israel was monitoring the situation with Syria's chemical weapons on a daily basis and it was important the Syrian leadership realised that using them in the current conflict would be crossing a red line.
You can watch the full interview on BBC World News on Thursday 2 August at 15.30 and 20.30 GMT.
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