Israel and Chad resumed ties in 2018 following a go to to Jerusalem by then-President Idriss Deby to PM Netanyahu.
Chad will inaugurate on Thursday an embassy in Israel, constructing on bilateral relations that have been established 5 years in the past, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned.
The announcement on Wednesday got here as Chadian President Mahamat Deby’s workplace mentioned he was on a 48-hour state go to to Israel, with out offering additional particulars.
Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned the Chadian chief would officiate on the embassy inauguration.
Chad had severed its ties with Israel in 1972 after the Group of African Unity, the predecessor of the present African Union, issued a choice to its member states to chop diplomatic ties with Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians.
However in November 2018, former Chadian President Idriss Deby, the late father of the present chief, paid a historic go to to Israel throughout which he spoke of the 2 international locations committing to a brand new period of cooperation.
Netanyahu then visited Chad in January 2019, whereas the next yr Israel signed normalisation agreements with Morocco, Bahrain, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates as a part of a broader diplomatic push by the USA underneath President Donald Trump.
The agreements enraged Palestinians who condemned them as a “stab within the again” amid fears that they are going to weaken a long-standing pan-Arab place calling for Israeli withdrawal from territories it occupies illegally and acceptance of Palestinian statehood in return for regular ties with Arab international locations.
It was not instantly clear the place the Chadian embassy could be situated. Most international locations preserve embassies in Tel Aviv.
Trump in 2017 provoked controversy by saying he would relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and formally did so a yr later. The transfer infuriated Palestinians and spurred worldwide condemnation.
Earlier US presidents and the leaders of almost each different nation have avoided opening embassies in Jerusalem till the town’s closing standing is resolved by Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Palestinian leaders see occupied East Jerusalem because the capital of their future state.
Netanyahu, who returned to workplace final month, has forged the improve of relations with Chad as a part of his outreach to Arab and Muslim international locations, which he needs to broaden.
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