Emirati influencers have celebrated the UAE for remaining in the UN General Assembly hall during Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech despite a mass walkout over Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly did not transmit the United Arab Emirates’ warning about a potential pre-emptive Hamas operation to the heads of so-called security agencies.

The UN warns that the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is threatening the lives of at least 45 million people with food shortages.

Vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell to single digits on Thursday despite repeated claims made by Washington that millions of barrels of oil are exiting the chokepoint every day.

Bahraini protesters have staged a rally in the Persian Gulf kingdom to condemn the Al Khalifah regime’s heavy-handed crackdown on the country’s Shia community and unfair trial of religious scholars.

The Israeli internal security and counterintelligence service, Shin Bet, is expected to step up operational restrictions affecting commercial aviation services between the Israeli-occupied lands and the UAE.

The economic impact of the strikes quickly spread across regional bourses.