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Hamas urges UAE to cancel Israeli president’s invitation to climate confab

By Gianluca Pacchiani

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1 December 2023, 2:00 pm Edit

Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) meets with President Isaac Herzog on the sidelines of the COP28 summit in Dubai, December 1, 2023. (Courtesy)

Hamas urges the “friendly state” of the United Arab Emirates, host nation of the UN Climate Change Conference COP28, to withdraw its invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

In a statement, Hamas says that “irrespective of the conference’s nature,” the international community and the UN should not afford “criminal” Herzog a platform, arguing that there is a “political and moral imperative to boycott him” because of his involvement in the war against the terror group in Gaza.