The White House has announced that the peacekeepers will leave the strategic island of Tiran in 2022.

And earlier in the day, the US website Axios reported that “Israel’s agreement to transfer sovereignty over the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia will result in Riyadh announcing that Israeli commercial aviation is allowed to use it.” Saudi Arabian airspace towards Asia and allowing charter planes to fly pilgrims directly from Israel to the holy lands in Saudi Arabia.

He pointed out that “Israeli officials have said the moves are expected to be announced during US President Joe Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia later in the week.”

The website states that “the agreement on the transfer of sovereignty over the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia includes the transfer of the international forces stationed there to alternative locations in the Sinai”, explaining that “Israel gives a green light to the transfer of sovereignty through the islands of Tiran and Sanafir, in Red Sea to Saudi Arabia.

Tiran is an uninhabited Saudi island located at the entrance to the Strait of Tiran, which separates the Gulf of Aqaba from the Red Sea, with an area of ​​​​61.5 km² and about 2.5 km from the neighboring island of Sanafir.