Advisor to the Prime Minister and official spokesman for the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Majed Al-Ansari, confirmed that Qatari mediation efforts regarding Gaza are still continuing.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Al-Ansari said that the teams are still working through the operations room in Doha or through mediation teams to ensure that lines of communication remain open. He described the negotiation process as one of the most difficult negotiations that the Qatari mediation mechanism has gone through.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed that the Israeli bombing of areas in the southern Gaza Strip makes it difficult for aid to enter the Strip.
Al-Ansari explained that the biggest challenge lies in delivering aid to the areas north of the Gaza Strip.
Yesterday, Sunday, at the ministerial meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council held in Doha, Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani said that the State of Qatar renews its strong condemnation of what the Israeli occupation forces are committing in Gaza.
He also renewed the demand for an immediate international investigation into the crimes of the occupation against the residents of Gaza, and stressed that the State of Qatar will continue its efforts with active countries to resume the humanitarian truce and reach a permanent ceasefire.
On December 1, a 7-day humanitarian truce ended between the Palestinian resistance factions and Israel. It was concluded through Qatari mediation with Egyptian-American support, during which prisoners were exchanged and humanitarian aid was brought into the Strip, which is inhabited by about 2.3 million Palestinians.
The truce temporarily stopped a devastating war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip, since October 7, which left tens of thousands of civilian casualties, most of them children and women, and massive destruction of infrastructure, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.
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2023-12-03 23:20:15
