DUBAI (Reuters) -United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s tour of Gulf nations is geared toward coordinating positions after Tuesday’s Israeli assault on Hamas leaders in Doha, his diplomatic adviser mentioned on Thursday.
“The President’s Gulf tour displays a deep conviction in strengthening coordination and cooperation, and in reinforcing the idea of a standard future,” Anwar Gargash mentioned in a publish on X.
Israel tried on Tuesday to kill Hamas political leaders in an airstrike on the Qatari capital, escalating its navy marketing campaign within the Center East and prompting a flurry of worldwide condemnations.
Sheikh Mohammed was the primary head of state to go to Doha after the assault and has since travelled to Bahrain and Oman.
Doha will host an emergency Arab-Islamic summit subsequent Sunday and Monday to debate the Israeli assault, Qatar’s state information company reported earlier on Thursday.
In a separate assertion, the UAE’s international ministry condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “hostile” remarks in opposition to Qatar, emphasizing that any aggression in opposition to a Gulf state constituted an assault on “the collective Gulf safety framework.”
Netanyahu warned Qatar on Wednesday to both expel Hamas officers or “carry them to justice, as a result of if you happen to do not, we are going to”. He additionally accused Qatar of offering secure haven and financing to Hamas, drawing a pointy rebuke from Doha.
UAE, a serious oil producer and regional commerce and commerce hub with diplomatic sway throughout the Center East, signed a U.S.-brokered normalisation settlement with Israel underneath the Abraham Accords in 2020, which paved the way in which for shut financial and safety ties together with defence cooperation.
(Reporting by Jana Choukeir and Enas Alashray; Modifying by Sharon Singleton and Nia Williams)