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Dubai
Israel and the UAE agreed Thursday to normalise ties in a US-brokered deal, only the third such accord the Jewish state has struck with an Arab nation, in which it pledged to halt annexation of Palestinian lands.
The bombshell news was first announced by US President Donald Trump who tweeted about the “HUGE breakthrough”.
Establishing diplomatic ties between Israel and Washington’s Middle East allies is a key goal of Trump’s regional strategy to contain Iran, which is also an arch-foe of Israel.
A statement by the three nations’ leaders said “Israel will suspend declaring sovereignty” over occupied Palestinian West Bank areas -- an idea that had been proposed in Trump’s controversial earlier plan to resolve the conflict.
The UAE’s leader Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan quickly stressed in a tweet that “during a call with President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, an agreement was reached to stop further Israeli annexation of Palestinian territories”.
Dubai
Israel and the UAE agreed Thursday to normalise ties in a US-brokered deal, only the third such accord the Jewish state has struck with an Arab nation, in which it pledged to halt annexation of Palestinian lands.
The bombshell news was first announced by US President Donald Trump who tweeted about the “HUGE breakthrough”.
Establishing diplomatic ties between Israel and Washington’s Middle East allies is a key goal of Trump’s regional strategy to contain Iran, which is also an arch-foe of Israel.
A statement by the three nations’ leaders said “Israel will suspend declaring sovereignty” over occupied Palestinian West Bank areas -- an idea that had been proposed in Trump’s controversial earlier plan to resolve the conflict.
The UAE’s leader Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan quickly stressed in a tweet that “during a call with President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, an agreement was reached to stop further Israeli annexation of Palestinian territories”.
