Deputy Premier Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa stressed the importance of Palestinian unity amid challenges facing the region.
“This unity is the ideal path for the Palestinian people to regain its inalienable rights and establish its independent and sovereign state with Jerusalem as its capital,” he said.
He was speaking as he received Ismail Haniyeh, who arrived on visit to Bahrain as part of a regional tour.
“The Palestinian cause is the mother of all causes for the Arab Nation”, Shaikh Mohammed said, describing its settlement as a sine qua non to the settlement of all problems facing the Middle East.
The two sides discussed issues relating to Palestinian affairs as well as latest developments in the Palestinian, Arab and international arenas.