UAE’s Role in Enforcing Israeli Blockade of Gaza Strip Revealed
- UAE’s Role in Enforcing Israeli Blockade of Gaza Strip Revealed
by DAILY SABAH WITH REUTERS, https://www.dailysabah.com/
A new report discloses the United Arab Emirates (UAE)’ contribution in the years-long Israeli blockade in Gaza through preventing any supplies from reaching Palestinians living in the besieged enclave
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has long contributed to significantly worsening the humanitarian crisis in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, a new investigation has revealed. Speaking to Al Jazeera for a documentary called “What’s Hidden is Greater,” an engineer working with Hamas’ military wing, said the UAE has cut off any supplies to Gaza through the Bernice military base located in the southern coast of the Red Sea.
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As the UAE makes peace with Israel’s war on Palestinians through signing the controversial normalization deal, Palestinians fear the UAE’s move will weaken a longstanding pan-Arab call for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories and acceptance of Palestinian statehood in return for normal relations with Arab countries.
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For two decades, Palestinians have revered the founder of the UAE for his generosity, especially those living on the Gaza housing estate that bears his name. But gratitude to the UAE’s founding father has turned to anger at his son, Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, widely known as MbZ, after the Emirates’ Aug. 13 announcement that it would become the first Gulf Arab state to sign a “normalization” deal with Israel. Bahrain followed suit a month later.
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Although a majority of Gaza’s 2 million population need humanitarian assistance, Sheikh Zayed City resident Maher Hmaida, 57, said that providing aid to Palestinians did not give the UAE the right to make peace with the country he calls his “enemy,” Israel.
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