Buamim: We have no problem with Israeli products from West Bank

Hamad Buamim, the head of a Dubai’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has said the United Arab Emirates has no problem with importing Israeli products manufactured in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

He said this will help boosting the Palestinian economy via workers employed in the factories, noting that Israeli factories provide work for tens of thousands of Palestinians and said the hope is to assist the Palestinians economy rather than harm it.

“The advantages of the current [normalization] agreements and those that will come for the Palestinians are particularly great, and they have the potential to make the necessary change in the area,” Buamim said.

“We are an open market in every sense of the word, and that means the broader the trade is and the more it is able to help various populations in the region, the better,” Buamim told Israel’s Globes newspaper.

He said the UAE will not boycott Israeli products from the West Bank, and he did not believe there is a need to make a distinction!

This week, Israeli companies that produce wine, tahini, olive oil and honey have signed a deal with the Dubai distribution company FAM Holding, to export their products to the United Arab Emirates.

“This is a very big goal we have reached today,” FAM Holding CEO Faisal Ali Mousa said.

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