UAE, Israel and US held secret meeting to discuss post-war Gaza plans

The UAE, US and Israel met in Abu Dhabi on Thursday to discuss post-war plans for Gaza, a day after a senior Emirati diplomat signalled that the UAE was prepared to send peacekeeping forces to the besieged enclave.

The meeting was hosted by Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan and attended by the White House’s top Middle East official, Brett McGurk, State Department counsellor Tom Sullivan, and Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, according to Axios.

The meeting came on the heels of an opinion article published in The Financial Times that backed the deployment of a temporary international force in Gaza to provide “law and order”.

Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE’s former ambassador to the United Nations, now an assistant minister for political affairs in the UAE, said an international force could be sent to Gaza at the invitation of the Palestinian Authority as part of efforts to achieve a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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