UAE will not back postwar Gaza plans without Palestinian state
DUBAI: The UAE is not prepared to support a postwar plan for Gaza that does not include a Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said on X on Saturday.
“The UAE is not ready to support the day after the war in Gaza without the establishment of a Palestinian state,” his post on X said.
Anwar Gargash, an Emirati diplomatic adviser and a former minister of state, said Sheikh Abdullah’s statement made clear that the UAE rejects anything but a two-state solution for Palestine and Israel.
“The statement by His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed that the UAE is not prepared to support the day after the war in Gaza without the establishment of a Palestinian state reflects our firm and steadfast position in supporting our Palestinian brothers and our conviction that there is no stability in the region except through a two-state solution,’’ Gargash wrote on X.
“The UAE will stand by the Palestinian people and their right to self-determination,” he added.
Earlier, the UAE called for a temporary international mission to lay the foundation for a new form of governance in Gaza after the war ends.
In a statement, Reem bint Ebrahim Al-Hashimy, the country’s minister of state for international cooperation, reaffirmed the UAE’s support for international efforts to achieve the two-state solution and for the mission that would help establish law and order and respond to the humanitarian crisis in postwar Gaza.
