Saudi Arabia Allows Israeli Planes to Cross its Airspace

Saudi Arabia allows Israeli planes to cross its airspace en route to UAE after a discussion between Saudi officials and White House senior advisor, Jared Kushner.

Kushner and Middle East envoys Avi Berkowitz and Brian Hook had a discussion on this issue and ended up with this result after all of them arrived in Saudia for the meeting. “We were able to reconcile the issue.” The official told Reuters.

The agreement was released just a few hours before the first Israeli commercial flight to UAE — that Saudi Arabia will allow Israeli planes to cross its airspace — was planned on Tuesday. There was a high risk of the flight being canceled because there was no overflight agreement beforehand.

The direct flights are an offshoot of normalization deals Israel reached this year with the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan.

“This should resolve any issues that should occur with Israeli carriers taking people from Israel to the UAE and back and to Bahrain too,” the official said.

Kushner and his team were to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman later this week, as well as the emir of Kuwait. One goal of the trip is to try to persuade Gulf Cooperation Council countries to end a three-year blockade of Qatar.

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