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Israel, Bahrain sign security agreement as Gantz completes historic visit

An Israeli official says Thursday's agreement with Bahrain was the first such pact that Israel had reached with one of its new allies in the Gulf.

by  ILH Staff and Reuters
Published on  02-03-2022 20:27
Last modified: 02-03-2022 20:44
Israel, Bahrain sign security agreement as Gantz completes historic visitTwitter/@gantzbe

King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa hosting Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz | Photo: Twitter/@gantzbe

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Israel and Bahrain signed a security cooperation agreement on Thursday, the first between Israel and a Gulf nation, during a visit by Defense Minister Benny Gantz to the kingdom amid heightened tensions in the region.

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Bahrain, along with the United Arab Emirates, normalized relations with Israel in 2020 under the US-brokered Abraham Accords, partly out of shared concerns about Iran.

"The MOU (memorandum of understanding) framework will support any future cooperation in the areas of intelligence, mil-to-mil (military to military), industrial collaboration and more," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

An Israeli official said Thursday's agreement with Bahrain was the first such pact that Israel had reached with one of its new allies in the Gulf.

"Only one year following the signing of the (Abraham) Accords, we have achieved an important defense agreement which will contribute to the security of both countries and the stability of the region," the Defense Ministry quoted Gantz.

It said he and his Bahraini counterpart signed the document, and that Gantz had held talks with King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa at the royal palace. Earlier in the day, Gantz visited the US Navy Fifth Fleet's headquarters in Bahrain. Bahrain hosts the Fifth Fleet's headquarters as well as some operations for CENTCOM, a US military coordination umbrella organization for the Middle East that Israel joined last year.

"Against a backdrop of increasing maritime and aerial threats, our ironclad cooperation is more important than ever," Gantz said on Twitter after the naval base visit. The UAE on Wednesday said it intercepted three drones that entered its airspace over unpopulated areas in the fourth such attack in the past few weeks.

The first three assaults were launched by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in an escalation with a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and which includes the UAE. Israel this week is joining a 60-nation US-led Middle East naval exercise alongside the UAE and Bahrain and, for the first time, publicly alongside Saudi Arabia and Oman, two countries it has no diplomatic relations with.

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