Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, met with Hakan Fidan, the foreign minister of Turkey, for talks in Doha, which were dominated by Israel’s 18-month conflict in Gaza.
“We saw some improvement on Thursday compared to other meetings, but we still need to address the key issue: how to put an end to this war. The main focus of the negotiations, according to Mohammed, who also serves as foreign minister.
In order to rekindle Israel’s relationship with Hamas, David Barnea, the head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, reported to have traveled to Doha on Thursday.
Hamas and Israel are still at odds with one another over the ultimate goal of the negotiations, Mohammed said, not revealing how far the ceasefire talks had gone.
After Israel pulled out of a previous ceasefire and resumed its military operations on March 18, Mediator Qatar attempted to restore a truce, which ended in total secrecy.
The “ethnic cleansing being carried out by Israel in Gaza is against international and humanitarian law,” according to Turkiye’s Fidan.
“Gaza has not received humanitarian aid in the last two months. The entire world is watching and observing this humanitarian crisis. He said we must find a way to put an end to the violence in Gaza and ensure that aid is delivered to those in desperate need.
Palestinians in Gaza are facing starvation threat, according to the UN, because World Food Programme warehouses across the region are currently full after last week’s supply shortage.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) stated on Sunday that “the siege must be lifted,” noting that Gaza’s residents have been “plungered into a cycle of deadly violence and deprivation.”
UNRWA criticized Israel in a prior statement, claiming that nothing “can justify the Palestinian people’s collective punishment.”
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Gaza, headed by Jonathan Whittall, accused Israel of “weaponizing” aid by denying it to displaced Palestinians on Saturday.
People in Gaza are not surviving right now. He claimed that those who aren’t being killed by bombs and bullets are “dead on the verge”. There is no justification for the inalienable lack of humanitarian aid. Additionally, no weapon should ever be used to provide humanitarian aid.
Israel continued its airstrikes throughout Palestinian territory as a result of the famine warnings in Gaza. As hospitals are still flooded with children among the victims, at least nine have died as of Sunday morning, dawn.
Since Israel’s war on Gaza began 18 months ago, there have been at least 52, 243 Palestinian deaths and 117, 639 injuries. More than 61,700 people have been reported missing under the rubble, according to the Gaza Government Media Office, who added thousands are believed to be dead.
During the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, an estimated 1, 139 people were killed in Israel, and more than 200 were taken prisoner.
Israel’s aerial and ground attacks were described as “devastating,” according to Tareq Abu Azzoum, an Al Jazeera correspondent from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
Source: Aljazeera
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