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Political andeconomic relations exist between theState of Palestine and theKingdom of Bahrain. Palestine has an embassy inManama, but Bahrain does not have arepresentative office orembassy in Palestine. As two primarilyMuslimArab countries in theMiddle East region, they share many cultural similarities, and a small percentage of thePalestinian diaspora reside in Bahrain.
The holding of theBahrain Economic Peace Conference or also called Peace to Prosperity workshop on June 25 and 26, 2019, sparked controversy. Palestinian leaders rejected the plan and boycotted the conference. Palestinian Prime MinisterMuhammad Shtayyeh said: “The content of the American workshop in the Bahraini capital,Manama, is poor, and its representation is weak and its outputs will be sterile.”[1][2][3][4]
On September 11, 2020, relations between the two countries deteriorated due to theBahrain–Israel normalization agreement and the subsequent recall by Palestine of its ambassadorKhaled Aref.[5][6] The Palestinian leadership also announced its strong rejection and denunciation of the US-Bahraini-Israeli tripartite declaration.[7]
After the start of theGaza war in 2023,pro-Palestine protests broke out across the country, many of them taking place outside of the Israeli embassy in Bahrain.Human Rights Watch reported that the Bahraini authorities had arrested 57 protestors, 23 of whom were under the age of 18, and at least one person had been jailed for posts made on social media.[8] Bahrain recalled their ambassador to Israel in November 2023, around the same time the Israeli ambassador left Manama. Flights between Israel and Bahrain were suspended, but there were no mention of any economic ties being cut.[9] The vast majority of Bahraini civilians are staunchly pro-Palestinian, and the ties between Bahrain and Israel continuing widens the rift between the government and the population's interests, with domestic pressure and civil unrest set to potentially increase as the war persists.[10]
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