By Musa Mdluli

MBABANE:Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says an agreement with Syria is achievable, outlining expectations that Syrian authorities establish a demilitarised buffer zone stretching from Damascus to Jabal al-Sheikh which Israel currently occupies, Aljazeera reported.

It has been reported that, Netanyahu’s comments on Tuesday came a day after United States(US) President Donald Trump said, he wanted both Syria and Israel to “have a long and prosperous relationship together”.

But talks have been ongoing over a security agreement between Israel and Syria for months, however this appear to have made little progress in recent weeks, Syria does not formally recognise Israel which has expanded its illegal occupation of Syrian territory over the last year.

“Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war and later illegally annexed the area, a move recognised by the United States but rejected by most of the international community. Then, after the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, it reneged on a 1974 agreement and expanded further into Syrian territory, seizing areas including the whole of Jabal al-Sheikh, a mountain that commands views over northern Israel and southern Syria. Israel has repeatedly attacked Syria in the last year, despite the new government in Damascus’s insistence that it is not looking for a fight. Most recently, an Israeli raid last Friday killed 13 people in the town of Beit Jinn, southwest of Damascus,” reads the Aljazeera report in part.