Middle East Eye’s account of the secret dispatch of Zionist officials to Qatar
According to IRNA, this online media based in London quoted former American officials and some Persian Gulf countries in an interview with Middle East Eye and added: at least one of the places where the Israeli officials went. have traveled, the Al Udayd Air Base is the American base, which is also the headquarters of American forces in the Middle East known as CENTCOM.
According to this report, the Zionist regime started partnership with Centcom last year in an action based on the 2020 normalization agreement. In this agreement, Bahrain and the UAE established full diplomatic relations with the Zionist regime, and Morocco and Sudan followed them to normalize relations with this regime.
Officials of some Persian Gulf countries, who are aware of the deployment of Zionist officials, asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue. They have refused to say how many Zionist officials are currently in Qatar.
The Zionist regime and Qatar, as America’s two main allies, do not have official diplomatic relations, but they cooperate on issues including Palestine.
Qatar has confirmed what it describes as “working relations” with the Zionist regime; The relations that were more manifested in the attack of this regime on Gaza last year.
Middle East Eye wrote: However, the revelation of the visit of Israeli military officials to Qatar, which was not reported before, shows how the relations between the two sides have expanded from traditional areas such as Palestine, especially as the United States seeks to strengthen security cooperation between its Arab partners and Tel Aviv. He tries.
The media added: Reports indicate that in March, Qatari military officials – along with officials from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Jordan – met with their American and Israeli counterparts in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss a plan to defend discuss a joint missile.
Middle East Eye wrote: Centcom, in response to this media’s question about the deployment of Israeli military officials in American bases in Qatar, referred the answer to this question to the Israeli army. The Israeli army refused to comment on this matter.
Qatar, a gas-rich country with a population of 2.8 million, of which only 300,000 are Qatari nationals, has had complex relations with the Zionist regime.
Qatar was the first country from the Persian Gulf to establish business relations with the Zionist regime. During the second intifada, Saudi Arabia and other countries pressured Qatar to close its commercial office in the regime. When the Zionist regime started its invasion of Gaza in 2009, the business office that was reopened was closed.
Qatar has long presented itself as the defender of Palestine. The Al-Jazeera media network and its affiliates, which are funded by the Qatari government, are considered by many to be critical of Tel Aviv.
Doha also has close relations with Hamas, providing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in coordination with the United Nations.
Through its ties to Hamas, Doha helped the country negotiate a ceasefire in the May conflict that killed more than 260 Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. After the ceasefire, Qatar pledged to allocate 500 million dollars to support the reconstruction of Gaza.