The news of a peace agreement between Israel and Bahrain first came from US President Donald Trump on Twitter.
Seconds later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu communicated with the country's residents:
"Citizens of Israel, I am moved when I can now say that we have reached another peace agreement with an Arab, Bahrain, tonight."
Aroused dissatisfaction
Netanyahu said relations with Bahrain should be "normalized" and that diplomatic contacts should be established, just as Israel has done with the United Arab Emirates following the August 13 agreement.
In both agreements, Israel says that it is canceling planned annexations of the occupied West Bank.
But Netanyahu has insisted that the plans are not completely shelved.
Just half an hour after the outburst, the reactions came from the Palestinians, who immediately condemned the agreement and characterized it as "a stab in the back" on the Palestinian people.
Iran also showed its clear and angry dissatisfaction with the agreement.
In a statement on Twitter, a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, writes that Bahrain "should learn from history, tomorrow it may be too late".
Egypt praises the agreement
Bahrain becomes the fourth Arab country to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel, following the United Arab Emirates, Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994.
Egyptian President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi sees the peace treaty as "historic".
"I commend this important step towards achieving stability and peace in the Middle East, which can lead to a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian cause," al-Sisi wrote on Twitter.
The great power Saudi Arabia has previously said that a settlement with Israel is not relevant until the question of the Palestinians' future is resolved and secured.