Qatari negotiator ‘hopeful’ of deal for Hamas to release civilian hostages



A senior Qatari negotiator said that he hoped civilians being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza could be released within days. Mohammed Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi, Qatar’s minister of state for foreign affairs, told Britain’s Sky News that the negotiations were progressing under very difficult circumstances.

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16 comments

  1. He is double spy and conspiracy of Qaran jihad,,,,

  2. Elon Musk's X spread AI'd puppy rescue photos edited to include be-headed babies to blame on Hammas. American man then stabs 6-year-old Palestinian boy 26 times.

    USA dislike Muslims more than Jews and have bombed Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Palestine, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen.

    Netanyahu bombs Gaza hospitals, schools and mosques because patients, children and those in prayer are ALL human shields. 7,000 killed in Gaza vs 1,450 in Israel.

    Putin's 612-day war is old news and forgotten. Meanwhile in the civilised world, New Zealand vs South Africa tomorrow in the rugby world cup grand final.

  3. Fund ukraine and Israel Republicans fault

  4. As a skilled negotiator, I'd think the first step the Qatar's minister of state for foreign affairs would be to change his name to Peyton Manning.

  5. UN🇺🇳 & Qatar🇶🇦 must end Israel occupation in West Bank & Golan. UK🇬🇧 responsible in Palestine conflict. Balfour Declaration issued by UK (1917), which announced for establishment "national home for Jewish people" in Palestine. At that time, Palestine was teritory Ottoman empire & jews in Palestine were still minority.

  6. Keep trying- Israel is A SECTARIAN APARTHEID THEOCRACY in breach of INTERNATIONAL LAW! 😡

  7. Israel doesn't even want the hostages back.

  8. Qatar is pro Israel and Iran. I wouldn’t listen to their lies

  9. These qatari idiots are funding, sponsoring and sheltering terrorism, now acting like we can negotiate.

  10. In March 2019, Netanyahu told his Likud colleagues: “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”

    Doha’s ties with Hamas are deeply problematic. It has helped Hamas survive and prosper as a movement with its roots in Gaza and the West Bank, but much of its leadership safely and comfortably ensconced elsewhere. Doha serves as one of two main external bases for Hamas (the other is in Turkey). The Israeli government has helped too. Over the past five years it has allowed Qatar to fund Hamas’s oppressive and often brutal rule in Gaza through transfers of cash – around $30m a month – and fuel. Israel has done so principally to avoid taking responsibility for the welfare of people living there, but also in the hope that by sustaining Hamas in Gaza it would widen the split between Gaza and the West Bank, undermine the Palestinian Authority (PA) and make the prospect of a unified Palestinian position impossible.

    Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”)

    “The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.”

    “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote.

  11. Qatar the one actually supporting hamas,but for Americans.. It's iran fault 😁

  12. Al-Jazeera Qatar channel Goebbels-level propaganda. Qatar is Hamas. Hamas leaders live in Doha and do not care about those people of Gaza whom Hamad/Hamas used as cannon fodder…

  13. Peace Love and Harmony 💖💖💖💖

  14. People want peace- greed wants war-people had enough war mongers

  15. We all have the right to self defense, self determination and the right to live are lives free of terror. Taking Hostages an using Terror is never right bombing anyone is never right. We must ask are selves why must people need to suffer needlessly on both sides. Palestine is not Hamas. Israel is not the aggressor. We must replace vengeance with love. We must replace this era of hate with an era of love and understanding. We can not go on killing one's brother and sister on both side and expect a peaceful resolution. Revenge is not the way it stifles progress and all of humanity. Peace is only achieved when people set there own personal politics aside and think of the people who they are supposed to be serving.