Bahrain’s Interior Minister Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa and the “Israeli” entity’s so-called Public Security Minister Amir Ohana discussed on Tuesday a range of issues including security cooperation, state-run media reported.
According to the official Bahrain News Agency, the two ministers held a video call and applauded the bilateral "peace deal" meant "to promote security, stability, and prosperity and meet people's inspiration for peace."
Bahrain normalized relations with the “Israeli” entity last year.
The Bahraini interior minister asserted that the "reform project" of King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa "reinforces coexistence, tolerance and openness values as part of characteristics of Bahraini identity."
The two sides reviewed security cooperation, exchange of expertise, as well as discussed issues of mutual interest.
Other Arab regimes which normalized relations with Tel Aviv in 2020 are the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Sudan.
People in Bahrain have taken to the streets to denounce the appointment of an Israeli chargé d'affaires to the country and the normalization of ties with the Tel Aviv regime.
Bahrain’s most prominent cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim has expressed sympathy with members of the ethnic Pakistani Hazara community, after the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group killed nearly a dozen coal miners from the Shia Muslim group in a targeted attack in southwest Pakistan earlier this month.
The administration of outgoing US President Donald Trump has designated Bahraini opposition group Saraya al-Mukhtar as a “terrorist” organization, months after the Manama regime agreed to a Washington-brokered normalization with Israel.
Bahrain will not allow the import of Israeli goods produced in settlements in occupied Palestinian territory, state-run Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported, disavowing comments made by the Gulf state’s trade minister earlier this week.
