Three Gulf States Cooperating With ‘Israel’ To Battle COVID-19 Pandemic

By Staff, Agencies

In yet another sign of warming up ties on all levels, some Arab states are seeking the ‘Israeli’ enemy’s help in their battles with the novel Coronavirus outbreak.

In further details, news emerged about three Gulf states that are actively engaged in cooperation with the Zionist entity’s health system, with one having recently asked for help installing an advanced telemedicine system to confront the coronavirus pandemic, according to a senior official at one of the occupation entity’s leading hospitals.

Top representatives from Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have been in regular touch with the Sheba Medical Center since before the current health crisis, said Yoel Hareven, who heads the hospital’s international division. But in March, a high-ranking member of the Emirati royal family privately visited the hospital in Ramat Gan and has since remained in weekly contact, Hareven said.

In addition, a third country in the Gulf that is not known to have strong ties with the Zionist entity recently reached out to Sheba with a request for help installing telemedicine solutions to treat COVID-19 patients from afar, something Sheba has specialized in, he said.

Hareven refused to name the third country, but was likely referring to Kuwait.

“There is a growing readiness to interact with us, even openly, in the health sphere,” he said. “These things happen slowly, but they happen, maybe not at the [inter-governmental] level as we would have liked, but things are happening.”

Hareven said he was certain that the job the unnamed country gave Sheba will lead to future cooperation between the two governments.

“You open a small crack and the foot enters the door, and later the whole body and then the head come in,” he said. “It’s indeed the beginning of a very fascinating journey — for the entire ‘Israeli’ public, not only for the medical field or Sheba Medical Center.”