The transfer to pause its mediator function comes after senior U.S. officers reportedly stated Washington would not settle for the presence of Hamas representatives in Qatar, accusing the Palestinian militant group of rejecting recent proposals for an finish to the warfare in Gaza.
The Qatari assertion stated media stories on the way forward for the Hamas political workplace in Doha had been “inaccurate” with out specifying how.
“Qatar notified the events 10 days in the past over the past makes an attempt to achieve an settlement, that it might stall its efforts to mediate between Hamas and Israel if an settlement was not reached in that spherical,” the ministry stated in Saturday’s assertion.
“Qatar will resume these efforts … when the events present their willingness and seriousness to finish the brutal warfare,” in accordance with the assertion.
U.S. President Joe Biden final month had urged the Israeli authorities to make use of the demise of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar as “a possibility” to finish the warfare in Gaza, calling it “a second of justice.”