Posted on 12/31/20
| News Source: Vosizneias.com
Jerusalem, Israel - Thousands of Israeli tourists have descended on Dubai in the month since commercial flights started between Israel and the UAE. Many were trying to escape the strict lockdown rules in Israel, others were genuinely interested in discovered a new and hitherto unknown culture. Unfortunately there were some tourists intent on stealing items from their hotel rooms, leading to complaints by Emirati hotel managers according to a Ynet report.
The report quoted the owner of the hotel overlooking the world’s tallest structure in Dubai who recounted in detail thefts made by some of the Israeli tourists who resided in his hotel. “We host hundreds of tourists from all countries of the world, some of them create problems, but we have not seen items stolen before”, the manager said.
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He added that after checking out from the hotel it was found that their suitcases contained kettles, coffee and tea bags, hangers, towels, espresso machines and even light bulbs.
Consequently, a well-known anti-Israel Qatari presenter created a video depicting the thefts, claiming that a number of Emirati hotel owners had already contacted him detailing the thefts they managed to catch.
— Al Manar TV reports: Repeated misbehaviour of Israeli tourists in UAE hotels; stealing every carriable object such as lamps, towels, paintings etc.
— Mehdi Rizvi (@MehdiRizvi123) December 30, 2020
Yediot Aharonot:
"Israeli tourists are doing it again and again and are stealing everything they can get in the UAE hotels:
In the video, Abd Al-Aziz Khazraj Al-Ansari warns Emiratis saying: “They should know that normalization with Israel means having to give up room objects for now, and maybe land later on”. The video soon went viral on social media as people expressed their shock over the news.
The report goes on to describe different instances in which hotel managers noticed missing objects in rooms upon check out, saying their requests to examine the luggage of the Israeli guests were often met with shouting before they returned the objects and apologized.
“I have been visiting the UAE for many years and doing business there,” stated an Israeli businessman. “Last month I arrived at the hotel I was staying in and was terrified when I saw in the hotel lobby, Israelis are being searched for stolen items from the rooms.”
Last September, the UAE joined by Bahrain signed a normalization agreement with Israel reached through the assistance of US President Donald Trump, celebrating the Abraham Accords as a significant breakthrough in achieving Middle East peace.