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Sudan is the third Arab country in months to confirm the normalization of relations with Israel – Khartoum, after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain
23.10.2020
On Friday 10/23/2020, Khartoum confirmed the normalization of its relations With the State of Israel and “putting an end to the state of hostility between them”, as expressed in a tripartite statement issued by Sudan, the United States and Israel, broadcast on Sudanese state television.
“The leaders (of the three countries) agreed,” the joint statement said. On the normalization of relations between Sudan and Israel and the end of the state of hostility between them, “he added:” The leaders agreed to start economic and commercial relations. “
Hamas considers the normalization of relations between Israel and Sudan a “political sin”.
And he considered the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas claims that the normalization of relations between Israel and Sudan is a “political sin.”
“The announcement of the normalization of relations between Sudan and the occupying state is a political sin and harms our Palestinian people and their just cause, and harms the Arab and Sudanese interests,” said the movement’s spokesman, Hazem Qassem, in a statement received by AFP.
Trump: at least five other Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, want to normalize their relations with Israel
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that at least five other Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, want to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, after Sudan became the latest country in the region to normalize its ties with the been Hebrew.
Trump told reporters at the White House: “There are at least five Arab countries that want to join,” and he hoped that Saudi Arabia would normalize its relations with the Hebrew state.
Sudan and Israel agree to normalize relations
On Friday 10/23/2020, US President Donald Trump announced that Sudan and Israel had agreed to normalize relations between them, according to the White House.
With this agreement, Sudan will be the third Arab country to agree in recent months to establish diplomatic relations with the Jewish state, after the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain.
“The State of Israel and the Republic of Sudan agreed to make peace,” Bloomberg News quoted Trump as saying to reporters in the Oval Office as he said he had been on a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his counterpart. Sudanese Abdullah Hamdok.
Trump added that it is “peace in the Middle East without bloodshed.” On Friday, Trump had notified Congress of his intention to remove Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. The White House confirmed that Sudan had transferred $ 335 million to an account to help victims of terrorism and their families.
The inclusion of Sudan in the terrorism list is due to the behavior of the former Khartoum regime, which was overthrown in a coup, following popular protests in 2019.
Netanyahu says normalizing relations with Sudan is ‘an exceptional change’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the normalization of relations between Israel and Sudan represents an “exceptional change.”
In a statement written in Hebrew, he said: “What an exceptional transformation! Today Khartoum says yes to peace with Israel, yes to recognition of Israel and yes to normalization with Israel.”
A Palestinian official: Sudan’s incorporation into the press is a new stab in the back of the Palestinian people
A senior official at the Palestine Liberation Organization described Sudan’s decision to take steps to normalize relations with Israel as a “new stab in the back of the Palestinian people.”
Wasel Abu Youssef, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, added: “Sudan’s union with the printing press with the Israeli occupation state constitutes a new stab in the back of the Palestinian people and a betrayal of their just cause and a deviation from the Arab peace initiative. “
“This step and the steps that preceded it by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will not undermine the faith of the Palestinian people in their cause and their continuation of their struggle until the establishment of their independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital,” he said from Ramallah. in the occupied West Bank.
In the Gaza Strip, Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), a traditional ally of Sudan, told Reuters that the Khartoum decision was a step in the wrong direction. AP, DBA
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