PALESTINIAN movement Fatah called for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to be expelled from the Arab League today as the Gulf state officially opened an embassy in Israel.

Central committee spokesman Abbas Zaki branded Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed “a traitor” to the Palestinian cause for having normalised relations with Israel.

“If the UAE’s doors are opened to naturalise the zionists, you will perish,” he said.

“The people of the Emirates are free and great and we do not attribute this betrayal to them, because the only traitor is Mohammed bin Zayed,” Mr Zaki added.

The opening ceremony at the new embassy in Tel  Aviv was hosted by UAE ambassador to Israel Mohammad al-Khaja and attended by newly appointed Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

Last month, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid opened a new embassy in Abu Dhabi to represent his country in the UAE capital.

The normalisation deal was brokered by then US president Donald Trump and signed at the White House last September.

Israel and the UAE have struck a number of agreements on tourism, aviation and finance since then.