UAE says US should push for quick end to war in Gaza

By Alexander Cornwell

ABU DHABI (Reuters) – The United States needs to push for a quick end to the Israel-Hamas war and a new process to resolve the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian issue or Washington will be seen as ineffective, the diplomatic adviser to the United Arab Emirates president said on Saturday.

Anwar Gargash also said that Israel’s response to the Palestinian militant group Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack has been “disproportionate”, while the two decade policy of containment of the Palestinian issue by Israel had failed.

Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip has angered Arab states who…