Senior Israeli and Syrian ministers met in Paris for four hours on Thursday under the auspices of President Trump's special envoy Tom Barrack and discussed de-escalation of tensions between the countries, SİA reports citing Axios.
The meeting that was brokered by the Trump administration was the most high-level official engagement between Israel and Syria in more than 25 years.
It was the first meeting between the parties since the crisis erupted last week in the city of Suwayda in southern Syria last week and the Israeli strikes on Damascus that followed.
The last time a meeting on such high-level took place was in 2000 when president Clinton hosted then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and then-Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Sharaa at Shepherdstown as part of an effort to reach a peace deal between the countries.
The meeting in Paris was attended from the Israeli side by the minister for strategic affairs and Netanyahu's confidant Ron Dermer and from the Syrian side foreign minister Assad al-Sheibani, two Israeli officials said.
The goal of the summit was to reach security understandings regarding southern Syria in order to maintain the ceasefire between Israel and Syria and prevent a crisis like the one last week, Israeli officials said.
"I met this evening with the Syrians and Israelis in Paris. Our goal was dialogue and de-escalation, and we accomplished precisely that. All parties reiterated their commitment to continuing these efforts," Barrack wrote on X.
The Israeli government hopes that beyond the issue of security arrangements on the border, the summit in France "will lead to more Syrian willingness to move forward with Israel on diplomatic steps as well," a senior Israeli official said.
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