Immediately after the first direct flight from Tel Aviv landed in Abu Dhabi, UAE Minister of State Anwar Mohammed Gargash received the head of the Israeli delegation, National Security Advisor Meir Ben Shabbat. Jared Kushner, adviser to US President Donald Trump, also took part in the interview. The office of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu made it known in a statement.
"A painful scene". Thus the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh criticized the first direct flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates with an Israeli and US delegation on board. A flight - he said at the opening of the government meeting in Ramallah - "in clear violation of the Arab position on the Arab-Israeli conflict". "We would have liked much more - he continued - an Emirati flight land in Jerusalem after its liberation. But we live in a difficult Arab era".