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The Arab media extensively covered the arrival of the Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi on a direct flight from Ben-Gurion Airport, which passed through Saudi Arabia's airspace for the first time. 

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The Arabic-language Sky News network, which broadcasts from the UAE, aired in an open studio with various commentators and experts praising the agreement, urging other countries in the Persian Gulf to take a similar step.

Reporters were also posted at various broadcast stations, as well as at airports in Israel and the United Arab Emirates. 

The state television channels of the United Arab Emirates and the satellite television networks, which are owned by the princesses, also showed photographs of the front pages of newspapers in Israel, including the cover of "Israel Today", with the word "peace" in Arabic, Hebrew and English, alongside UAE, US and Israeli flags. 

The Saudi-based Al-Arabiya network also reported extensively on the arrival of the Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi, emphasizing the historic incident in which an Israeli passenger plane passed for the first time, with the approval of the Riyadh authorities, in Saudi Arabia on its way to Abu Dhabi. 

The Qatari network Al-Jazeera, one of the most popular and watched in the Middle East, covered the arrival of the Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi on a special broadcast that included hacking and updates.

However, perhaps to obscure the festive event, Al-Jazeera chose to focus on an explosion in a restaurant located near the highway to the airport. 

The Qatari network denied that it was apparently an explosion caused by a gas leak in the restaurant, and reported extensively that the Emirati security forces were examining whether there was a connection between the explosion in the restaurant and the Israeli delegation's historic arrival in the UAE. 

In Ramallah and Gaza, as expected, they condemned the arrival of the Israeli delegation to the UAE, saying that "the emirates continue to sprinkle salt on the wounds of the Palestinian people groaning under the yoke of the crimes of the Zionist occupation government, with which the UAE normalized relations." 

"It hurts to see"

Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Eshtiya condemned the arrival of the Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi, and said at the opening of the Palestinian cabinet meeting that "our hope was to see a UAE plane that would land its passengers in liberated Jerusalem. It hurts us to see an Israeli plane land in Abu Dhabi today." "In the name of the settlement built on the ruins of the village of Fallujah, where 'Abd al-Nasser was captured - in clear violation of the Arab position regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict." 

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum responded that it was a "black day in history."

He added that "the group of the normalized will not be forgotten from the memory of the peoples. This scene will remain a sign of shame on the foreheads of the normalized, who will never understand the danger of the Zionist entity."