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    ‘Gaza is burning’: Israel launches ground invasion of strip’s largest city

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    By Emma Graham,Ruxandra Iordache

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    ‘Gaza is burning’: Israel launches ground invasion of strip's largest city

    Despite this, Israel’s invasion threatens to rupture the Jewish state’s already shaky political relations with its Arab neighbors, many of which have historically supported the Palestinian cause. The Gaza City invasion comes after Arab and Muslim leaders convened in Qatar and called for a review of ties with Israel following the country’s strike on Doha last week.

    Qatar’s emir urged leaders to take “concrete steps” against Israel in response to a missile strike on Doha which killed six people, including a Qatari national. Israel said the strike was aimed at Hamas’ political leadership, who were, at the time, discussing Washington’s latest ceasefire proposal. Doha has long acted as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, hosting the political office of the group for many years.

    Views on Israel are divided among other Gulf nations. The UAE signed the Abraham Accords in 2020, recognizing Israel and establishing diplomatic normalization along with Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco after years of Arab isolation. The agreement now faces “the most difficult time since it was signed five years ago,” Emirati academic and political scientist Abdulkhaleq Abdulla told CNBC.

    U.S. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has made it his mission to improve ties between Israel and other Arab nations, cementing Washington’s influence in the Middle East.

    Saudi Arabia is Trump’s next big hope for normalization of relations with Israel, but that could now be out of reach. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has signaled that this step would require a credible and irreversible pathway to the establishment of a Palestinian state.

    For both the UAE and Saudi Arabia, the issues of ongoing deaths in Gaza and the potential Israeli annexation of the West Bank could imperil Trump’s ambitions to expand the Abraham Accords during his second term.

    “While relations can keep on being resilient, they are taking a different nature – limited in scope, mostly under-the-radar, focusing on security interests, and without a meaningful public dimension,” Nimrod Goren, president and founder of Mitvim, told CNBC.

    “Should the Israeli government decide to annex any part of Palestinian territories in the West Bank, following upcoming recognitions of a Palestinian state, then ties with Arab countries will suffer another blow and will further deteriorate. Israel should refrain from such a step, and the US should stop any such intentions,” he added.

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