"At the direction of the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian ambassador is urgently withdrawn from the UAE after the tripartite statement by the United States, Israel and the Emirates on the normalization of relations between Israel and the UAE," Riyadh al-Maliki said in a statement posted on the Palestinian Foreign Ministry's Facebook page. ...
Earlier, US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan issued a joint statement in which they expressed their commitment to restoring relations between Israel and the UAE.
Later, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin invited Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan to visit Jerusalem.