Netanyahu "phone call with Syrian president last year"... The first communication between leaders in history

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that he had a direct phone call with Syrian President Ahmed Al-Shara immediately after the bombing near the Syrian Ministry of Defense and the Damascus presidential palace in July last year.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said at the ruling Likud Party's Druze community event on the 15th (local time), "I called Shara directly," and claimed, "It was a very short and sharp phone call, but the massacre (against the Druze in Syria) stopped immediately after that."

He continued, “I will do everything I can to protect our brothers and your brothers.”

This is the first time in history that the leaders of Israel and Syria, who have had a long-standing hostile relationship and fought several wars, have been known to have held direct talks.

In addition, this is the first confirmed case of communication between the leaders of the two countries since former dictator Bashar al-Assad was ousted and President Shara came to power in late 2024.

As bloody sectarian clashes broke out in Sweida, a predominantly Druze area in southern Syria, Israel carried out airstrikes on the Defense Ministry building in Damascus under the pretext of protecting the local Druze.

Prime Minister Netanyahu's disclosure of his phone call with the Syrian president is interpreted as a ploy to target Druze voters ahead of the general election on the 27th and to strengthen his image as a 'security man'.

Israel and the Shara regime are currently conducting behind-the-scenes negotiations to conclude a security agreement between the two countries.

The Syrian side is demanding that the Israeli military enter the border buffer zone and withdraw all troops stationed there after the collapse of the Assad regime, drawing attention to the future negotiation process.