The foreign ministers of Egypt, the UAE, Morocco and Bahrain have arrived in Israel to participate in a meeting to be held in the Negev town of Sde Boker, headed by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and at the invitation of Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.
According to Israeli sources, the meeting aims to form a joint alliance in the region to confront Iran, and discuss the concerns of Israel and the participating countries about the possibility of the United States reaching a nuclear agreement with Tehran, as well as removing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from the list of terrorism.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that Minister Yair Lapid briefed his Arab counterparts - who will participate in the Negev ministerial meeting - about the Hadera attack.
She added that the ministers expressed their condemnation of the attack, while the Israeli channel 12 said that the Negev meeting will be held as scheduled today, Monday.
Blinken met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, and Abbas stressed that the priority should be a political solution that ends the Israeli occupation, resolves all permanent status issues - including refugees and Jerusalem - and releases all prisoners.
During his meeting with Blinken, Abbas stressed the importance of implementing the Biden administration's commitment to the two-state solution, halting settlement and settler violence, preserving the historical situation at Al-Aqsa, and repealing laws that consider the Palestine Liberation Organization as terrorist.