According to CoinMeta, as reported by Israel's Channel 12 on the 23rd, sources revealed that Syrian Transitional Government Foreign Minister Hibani met with the head of the Israeli Intelligence and Special Services Agency (Mossad), Goveman, on that day. The report stated that the meeting "was successful" and aimed to ease tensions between the two countries. Previously, on the 18th, the Israeli military conducted airstrikes on the Abu Zuhr Air Base in Idlib Province in northwestern Syria, which was strongly condemned by the Syrian Transitional Government Foreign Ministry as "an act of aggression without any justifiable reason."