MANAMA (Dispatches) – Bahrain’s Al Khalifah regime has dispatched a “security” delegation to the Israeli-occupied territories, amid outrage among the public in the Persian Gulf kingdom over normalization with the occupying regime.
The New Khalij news website, citing a post published by Israel in the Persian Gulf Twitter account of the Zionist regime’s ministry of foreign affairs, reported that the visit took place recently, without specifying its location.
The account, which defines itself as the official account of the virtual Israeli embassy in the Persian Gulf region, announced on Tuesday evening that a delegation headed by Bahrain’s Public Security Deputy Chief Major General Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Khalifah, arrived in the occupied territories on an official visit and met with the Commissioner-General of the Israel Police.
Bahrain has made no official comment about the visit as of yet.
Bahrainis have repeatedly expressed their opposition to the normalization of ties with the Zionist regime by holding demonstrations.
Bahrain’s main opposition group al-Wefaq and the kingdom’s top cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim have also repeatedly condemned the normalization move made by the Al Khalifah dynasty.
Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates signed U.S.-brokered normalization agreements with the regime in an event in Washington in September 2020.
Sudan and Morocco followed suit later in the year and inked similar U.S.-brokered normalization deals with the occupying regime.
The move sparked widespread condemnations from the Palestinians as well as nations and human rights advocates across the globe, especially within the Muslim world.
Palestinians slammed the deals as a treacherous “stab in the back” and a betrayal of their cause against the decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories. Palestinians are seeking an independent state in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip with East Al-Quds as its capital.