Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to his Qatari counterpart for Israel’s attack in Doha during a telephone call from the White House on Monday, a source close to Netanyahu told Reuters.

The call to Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani came as Netanyahu met with US President Donald Trump in Washington. A Qatari technical team is also at the White House, according to a separate source briefed on the talks.

The United Arab Emirates is also pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace proposal and to abandon any plan to annex the West Bank, a delegate with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

The UAE, the most prominent Arab country to normalise ties with Israel under the Abraham Accords, wa

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