Arab Countries Pressure Abbas To Resume Talks With Israel In Attempt To Confront Iran, Terror Groups

Sunni Arab states including Egypt and Saudi Arabia are pushing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to resume negotiations with Israel as part of a wider strategy to confront the region’s growing threat from Iran, a senior Egyptian official told the daily Israel Hayom on Monday.

 

According to the report, the urgency was compounded by Friday’s attack in northern Sinai that left 305 people dead in a Sufi mosque. Egypt has suspicions that some of the terrorists responsible for the bombing and shooting attacks managed to escape to Gaza through underground tunnels dug by the terror group Hamas.

 

The Egyptian official told Israel Hayom that, along with his country, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and several Gulf states hope to establish a coalition to confront terror groups in the region, including Iranian proxy Hezbollah.

 

A report at the Hebrew-language news site nrg seemed to corroborate that statement, with a unnamed senior Palestinian official saying that Abbas was under “serious pressure”  from Sunni states to renew talks as well as full “security coordination with Israel, in an effort to create a regional front against Iranian influence in the region and to combat terror.”

 

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