ABU DHABI (Dispatches) – Zionist foreign minister Yair Lapid opened the occupying regime’s first embassy in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, during a trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after the two sides normalized ties last year.
Lapid tweeted a photo of himself and UAE minister Noura al-Kaabi with a caption reading: “The opening of the Israeli Embassy in Abu Dhabi with the Emirati Minister of Culture and Youth.”
The foreign minister landed in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday in the first official visit by a Zionist minister to the Persian Gulf state after the two normalized ties in September.
During the two-day visit, the Zionist minister will also inaugurate the regime’s consulate in Dubai, as well as sign an agreement on economic cooperation, the regime’s foreign ministry spokesman Lior Haiat said.
The UAE, along with Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, began normalizing relations with the occupying regime last year under the Abraham Accords brokered by then-U.S. President Donald Trump.
Palestinians have denounced the normalization deals, describing them as a “stab in the back”.
They say the accords violate a longstanding pan-Arab position that the Zionist regime could normalize relations only in return for land.
The UAE claimed it had obtained a major concession from the Zionist regime and the U.S. to halt plans to annex territory in the occupied West Bank.
However, the Zionist regime has insisted that annexation remains a possibility.