Shin Bet director David Zini at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem during Memorial Day on April 21, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Shin Bet chief David Zini met with the Palestinian Authority’s exiled former Gaza security chief Mohammad Dahlan during a recent visit to the United Arab Emirates, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
The outlet cites regional and Israeli sources.
When asked by Kan, the Shin Bet says it will not comment on Zini’s schedule.
A 2024 report in the Wall Street Journal suggested that a number of officials, including in Israel, were pushing for Dahlan to oversee Gaza in the postwar era.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas has long withstood calls to reconcile with Dahlan, whom he had thrown out of the West Bank in 2011 following a bitter political dispute.
Dahlan moved to Abu Dhabi, where he became a close confidant of UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed and has been more freely able to criticize the PA’s conduct.
Then-Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Jan. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)
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