CAIRO (Dispatches) – The
Zionist regime will agree to the transfer of the Sanafir and Tiran islands from Egypt to Saudi Arabia during U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to the region later this month, in return for Riyadh allowing Israeli planes to use its airspace, Israel Hayom has reported.
According to the occupying regime’s media sites, “It is expected that Saudi Arabia will agree to allow Israeli planes to pass through its airspace from the east,” as it “has allowed Israeli planes to pass through its space while heading to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or Bahrain, as indirect support for the Abraham Accords,” in reference to normalization deals signed between the occupation regime and the two Persian Gulf states. They added “the new permission will shorten the flight time from Israel to the Far East.”
Zionist troops occupied the two strategic islands in 1949, before the 1979 Zionist-Egyptian treaty ruled that they became a demilitarized zone, with a force of U.S.-led multinational observers present. Under the treaty, the regime must approve the hand-over.
Israel’s i24 news site reported that in return for approving the handover, the Zionist regime has asked for a number of guarantees from Saudi Arabia, including guaranteeing freedom of military and civil navigation in the Strait of Tiran which, according to the site, Riyadh agreed to.
Biden will arrive in the Israeli-occupied territories next Tuesday, after which he will visit Saudi Arabia for two days where he will meet with leaders of the Arab and Persian Gulf states.