The deal is said to include the demilitarization of the Golan Heights and the prevention of rebuilding the Syrian army
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According to Israel’s Channel 12, “Israel and Syria are expected to sign a security agreement aimed at stabilizing the situation in Syria and preventing threats to Israel.”
“The understandings include the demilitarization of the Syrian Golan Heights, preventing the reconstruction of the Syrian army, and establishing a humanitarian corridor to Mountain of the Druze (Jabal al-Druze),” the report added.
The demilitarization includes barring the entry of any weapons into Syria that could pose a threat to Israel.
US envoy Tom Barrack met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 24 August, holding talks on both Lebanon and Syria.
The meeting came after talks between Barrack, Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, and Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz.
On the same day, Sky News Arabia quoted Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa as saying that Damascus was engaged in “advanced” talks with Tel Aviv on a security arrangement. Sharaa also reportedly said that the deal will be based on the 1974 Disengagement Agreement, which Israel abandoned after the fall of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government in December.
Sharaa said the time was not right for a peace deal, but that he “will not hesitate to take” any agreement that benefits Syria and the rest of the region.
Israel moved past the demilitarized zone after Assad’s government fell, declaring the 1974 agreement null and sweeping across the country’s south. Israeli forces have since established a widespread occupation across southern Syria and continue to expand it with raids, incursions, and land seizures.
Hundreds of airstrikes have also targeted and destroyed Syrian military infrastructure left over from the Assad era, wiping out missiles, radars, naval vessels, and other types of weapons and equipment.
Israeli troops pushed into the Damascus countryside on Monday morning, seizing control of Tal Bat al-Warda and storming the village of Beit Jann, where they opened fire on civilians and sparked panic among residents.
Last week, Dermer met with Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani in Paris.
The meeting focused on “preventing” Hezbollah or Iran from establishing a presence in southern Syria, Haaretz newspaper reported on 21 August.
“One proposal under discussion would limit the border zone to [Syrian] security forces without heavy weaponry, whose role would be restricted to maintaining order,” sources told the newspaper.
The sources also said a main topic of discussion was “establishing a humanitarian crossing between Syria and Israel to allow international aid to reach the Druze” in Suwayda, adding that a “preliminary proposal has been drawn up, and the meeting focused on its implementation under US supervision.”
Last month, Israel intervened in violent clashes between Syrian government-linked forces and Druze armed factions in the southern Suwayda governorate, carrying out heavy strikes on Damascus’s troops and sites in the country’s capital.
Tel Aviv framed the attacks as an effort to “protect” the Druze minority in Syria. Negotiations between Israel and Syria, which had been ongoing before the July clashes, resumed quickly following the Israeli strikes on the country.
Recent talk about a humanitarian crossing has prompted speculation on whether Israel’s real goal is to implement its long-desired plan of establishing “David’s Corridor.” The idea is rooted in Tel Aviv’s expansionist vision of a Greater Israel, and would link Kurdish-controlled northern Syria – backed by the US – to Israel via a continuous land route also including Iraq.
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