The Islamic State group on Sunday condemned Israel's normalisation accords with the UAE and Bahrain, calling for retaliatory attacks in Saudi Arabia. IS spokesman Abu Hamza al-Quraishi, in a purported audio recording posted on Telegram, said the deals with the Jewish state signed last month amounted to a "betrayal" of Islam. Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are both allies of Saudi Arabia which has yet to formally normalise ties with Israel. The spokesman urged IS fighters and other Muslims to carry out anti-Western attacks in the kingdom, home to Islam's holiest sites. In the group's last recording in January, the IS spokesman called for attacks on Jewish targets to counter US President Donald Trump's peace proposals for the Middle East. The IS group commanded a proto-state across swathes of Iraq and Syria before its territory was seized in succesive campaigns in both countries in 2018-2019. ho/hc