Gulf Arab power the United Arab Emirates warned today that there was a real risk of a regional spillover from the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, adding that it was working "relentlessly" to secure a humanitarian ceasefire.
How will Israel retaliate in Gaza? What do world leaders have to say on the latest burst of violence in the region? How did Hamas keep an operation of such magnitude under wraps? And what do the events of this week mean for much-needed Palestinian aid from the EU? Read on to find out.
A private museum in the United Arab Emirates unveiled on Saturday a Torah scroll that survived the Holocaust, the latest sign of what Israel and its new Arab allies describe as a new approach to understanding Jewish history in the Middle East.
The UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, in his recent visit to Israel, reportedly expressed concerns to opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu about the possibility of ultra-right extremists in the new government if the latter emerges victorious.