Israeli diplomats and officers have met with members of the FSA in Amman, likely in order to gauge the possibility of establishing a buffer zone along the Golan Heights border, a Jordanian news site reported on Wednesday.

In past there has been documents indicating the links between Israel and FSA such as the agreement between Israel and FSA to ensure a canal to transfer water from euphrates to Israel in future. Also Israeli weapons have been captured by Syrian Military from FSA fighters. There has been reports that FSA fighters being trained by Israelis in Jordan and Turkey.

According to an unnamed FSA source who spoke to Jordan’s independent Mouab website, the Israeli embassy in Amman recently contacted a number of members of FSA living in Jordan, inviting them for “consultation meetings” inside the embassy. Some oppositionists refused the invitation out of hand, while others agreed to meet outside the embassy in complete secrecy, the report said.

The meetings were said to have taken place in upscale restaurants and hotels, the source told Mouab, with the Israelis speaking “fluent Arabic.”

The Times of Israel could not independently confirm the report, and a spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Ministry declined to comment on it.

“As a matter of principle, we do not comment on such rumors,” Yigal Palmor said.

Members of FSA told Mouab that the goal of the meetings was likely to entice Syrians on the Golan Heights to establish a buffer zone on the border with Israel. Such a buffer would reportedly be administered by pro-Israeli elements similar to the South Lebanon Army, which was founded in 1982 upon Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and fought alongside the IDF until Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000.

Nearly half a million Syrian refugees have entered Jordan since the outbreak of the popular revolution against the Bashar Assad regime in March 2011. With an average daily influx of over 3,000 Syrians, Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour recently dubbed the refugee issue “a threat to Jordan’s national security.”

A number of senior Syrians have defected to Jordan, including former prime minister Riyad Hijab and numerous senior military officers.