Hamas Movement has strongly condemned Bahraini officials for receiving Israeli army minister Benny Gantz who had arrived in the Gulf kingdom on an unannounced visit.
“We condemn the landing of an Israeli military aircraft in the Bahraini capital of Manama which had Israeli war minister Benny Gantz and a number of commanders of the enemy army on board” Hazem Qassem a spokesman for Hamas Movement wrote in a post published on his Twitter page on Thursday.
Gantz landed in Bahrain on Wednesday. He is the first Israeli army minister to ever officially visit the Gulf country and was accompanied by several top military officials including Israeli navy chief Admiral David Saar Salama.
Last September Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid arrived at the Manama airport to become the regime’s highest-ranking official to visit the Gulf country since Israel and Bahrain forged formal relations in 2020.
