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Bahrain to allow Israel flights to UAE over its airspace
AP Published in Ahram Online on 04 - 09 - 2020

Bahrain will allow “all flights coming to and departing from the United Arab Emirates” to cross through the island kingdom's airspace, a statement apparently allowing Israeli flights after neighboring Saudi Arabia issued a similar announcement.
The state-run Bahrain News Agency made the announcement without directly naming Israel, just as Saudi Arabia had. However, the announcement late Thursday came just days after Saudi Arabia allowed the first direct Israeli commercial passenger flight to use its airspace to reach the UAE.
The statement makes no mention of the kingdom's rival, Iran, nor Qatar, which Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are currently boycotting.
Flights between Bahrain and the UAE now skirt just north of Qatari airspace as Doha remains banned from the airspace of boycotting nations amid a yearslong political dispute. Iranian flights to the UAE similarly don't need to enter the airspace of Bahrain.
BNA cited an unnamed Transportation and Telecommunication Ministry official for the announcement, saying it came at the request of civil aviation authorities in the UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Earlier this week, Jared Kushner, the U.S. president's son-in-law and senior adviser, flew with a high-level Israeli delegation to the UAE on the first direct commercial passenger flight between the two countries. The flight traversed Saudi airspace, signaling at least acquiescence for the breakthrough U.S.-brokered agreement by the United Arab Emirates to normalize relations with Israel.
Future UAE-bound flights from Israel likely could take the same route, avoiding travel over the Arabian Gulf, where Iran's Revolutionary Guard remains active. However, a planned El Al cargo flight from Belgium to Dubai later this month may need to travel over Bahrain. Currently, nonstop Emirates flights from Brussels travel across the length of Iran, which views Israel as its regional archrival.
The UAE has promoted the deal as hinging on Israel halting its contentious plan to annex parts of the West Bank sought by the Palestinians for their future state. The deal also may allow Abu Dhabi to purchase advanced weaponry from the U.S., including the F-35 stealth fighter jet.
The Palestinians have fiercely opposed the normalization as peeling away one of their few advantages in moribund peace talks with Israel.

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