Qatar is continuous its mediation efforts to resume a truce between Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas, Qatari prime minister mentioned Sunday.
He added nevertheless that the continuing Israeli bombardment was “narrowing the window” for a profitable final result.
“Our efforts as the state of Qatar along with our partners are continuing. We are not going to give up,” Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani informed the Doha Forum greater than two months into the Israel-Hamas battle.
Qatar was a key mediator in negotiations that resulted in a seven-day truce, which noticed scores of Israeli hostages exchanged for Palestinians prisoners and humanitarian support, till it ended at the beginning of the month.
Israel launched an indiscriminate assault on Gaza in retaliation to the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion. The Israeli offensive has killed over 17,700 individuals in Gaza, a lot of them ladies and kids.
Israeli casualties, compared, quantity round 1,200 individuals, in line with Israeli figures.
“We are going to continue, we are committed to have hostages released, but we are also committed to stop the war,” the Qatari premier mentioned.
But, he added, “we are not seeing the same willingness from both parties” and “the continuation of the bombardment is just narrowing this window for us”.
Addressing the Doha Forum earlier, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres mentioned the Security Council was “paralyzed by geostrategic divisions” that have been undermining options to the battle.
Also talking on the Doha Forum, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh mentioned the United States is as accountable as Israel for civilian deaths in Gaza.
“For the United States to block a United Nations Security Council resolution, one should hold the Americans responsible” for the lethal violence, he mentioned.
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, in the meantime, accused Israel of dragging the area “deeper into the sea of death.”
Addressing the discussion board, Safadi mentioned: “We are facing a difficult moment, a moment that will take us deeper into the sea of death and destruction, and Israel simply feels it can do that – it feels unaccountable.”
Source: www.dailysabah.com