Israel reportedly considered trading the Mount Dov area in exchange for Syria giving up its claim to the Golan Heights, public broadcaster KAN News reported on Wednesday night.
The report noted that the trade talks halted after several Syrian Druze civilians were killed in Sweida last month. However, KAN noted that the trade talks could resume, without citing sources.
The Prime Minister’s Office slammed the report in a later statement.
"The claim that Israel considered handing over Mount Dov is absolute fake news,” a statement provided to KAN read.
Will Israel, Syria reach an agreement?
A Syrian source told KAN that Ahmed al-Sharaa's government has not ruled out the trade after a security agreement was reached between the two countries, but noted that there were more pressing issues at hand.
"Currently, there are more urgent issues, such as Mount Druze. The Mount Dov issue should be resolved as part of the border demarcation between Syria, Lebanon, and Israel," the unnamed Syrian source told KAN.
A separate source, whose affiliations were not mentioned in the report, told the news outlet that the swap was not something that was on the table at this point in time, and that it would only be discussed later.
It is important to note that Syria, Israel, and Lebanon all separately claim Mount Dov. Hezbollah has previously claimed that it must keep its weapons until the mountain is "liberated" from Israel.
The KAN report came as Israel carried out operations south of Damascus. IDF soldiers parachuted from helicopters to a military post near Kiswa.
This comes after reports broadcast by state-run Al Ekhbariya TV cited two Syrian army sources claiming that Israel launched a series of strikes on a former army barracks in Kiswa.
There were no reports of clashes between the IDF and the Syrian military during the operation.
Liran Haroni and Reuters contributed to this report.