Bahrain's first official government delegation to Israel set off on Wednesday on the first Gulf Air commercial flight to Tel Aviv, as the two countries look to broaden cooperation after establishing formal ties in September in a US-brokered accord. Gulf Air flight GF972 – a reference to Israel's telephone country code – took off from Manama airport in the morning bound for Tel Aviv, according to flight-tracking website FlightRadar24. Bahrain's foreign minister, Abdullatif Al-Zayani, is leading the delegation. President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, Avi Berkowitz, is also on the flight and is leading a US delegation to Bahrain and Israel, he said on Twitter. READ: Normalisation with Israel undermines Palestinian statehood efforts Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates established […]
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