The UAE has summoned Israel’s ambassador to protest “attacks on civilians” and “incursions” into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the official WAM news agency said on Tuesday. The move follows Israeli raids on the holy site over the weekend that wounded 170 Palestinian worshippers. The UAE was one of three Arab countries to establish diplomatic relations with Israel in 2020, breaking with decades of Arab consensus that such ties should not precede a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The move was slammed by Palestinians and most Arab nations as a betrayal of their caus…

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