"Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt join call for Hamas to disarm, give up Gaza rule"

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31. September 21, 2023: "How has the Palestinian Authority reacted [to the Israel-Saudi Arabia deal]?"

How has the Palestinian Authority reacted?

In a bid to win over the PA, Saudi Arabia has offered to resume financial support to it after aid dropped to zero in 2021. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, a delegation of PA officials last month went to Riyadh to press for their own set of conditions in exchange for acquiescing to Saudi Arabia normalising ties with Israel.

The conditions include the reopening of the US consulate in occupied East Jerusalem, which former US President Donald Trump closed in 2019. The PA has also asked the US to back full Palestinian representation at the United Nations.

Other conditions include Israel giving the PA more control over some parts of the occupied West Bank and getting rid of illegal Israeli outposts.

This has been a far cry from how the PA reacted when Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates announced normalisation with Israel in 2020. At the time, the PA accused the Gulf states of stabbing it in the back.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/21/whats-happening-with-normalising-ties-between-saudi-arabia-and-israel