A fresh round of indirect talks, after 21 months of fighting in Gaza, began on Sunday, with Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari confirming discussions had gone into a third day.
Qatar, along with fellow mediators the United States and Egypt, has brokered back-and-forth talks aimed at a truce since the earliest days of the war, which erupted with Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
Trump, during Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, earlier said the Doha talks were going “very well” and that Hamas “want to have that ceasefire”.
“What is happening right now is that both delegations are in Doha, we are speaking with them separately on a framework for the talks,“ he said.
Ansari noted “positive engagement” and said the fact that the negotiating teams hadn’t left the Qatari capital was “always a good sign”.
However, they said, the group was also demanding certain conditions for Israel’s withdrawal, guarantees against a resumption of fighting during negotiations, and the return of the UN-led aid distribution system.
At the outset of the talks, Netanyahu said Hamas’s response to a US-backed ceasefire proposal, conveyed through mediators, contained “unacceptable” demands. – AFP
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