Qatar is ready to welcome Palestinian prisoners released if they choose to come, the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar said on Sunday, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.
There is no clear plan when the negotiations between Israel and Hamas for the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire would begin, he added.
At a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Doha, Al Thani said that Qatar was committed to Israel and Hamas to prepare for talks. He added that his country hoped to see a movement in the “next days”.
According to the ceasefire agreement, negotiations on the implementation of the second phase of the agreement should start before the 16th day of the first phase of the ceasefire, which is on Monday. This step should include the release of all the remaining hostages, a permanent cease-fire and the complete withdrawal of the Israeli Gaza forces.
His welcoming feeling of liberated Palestinian prisoners is not the first of its kind in recent weeks. Turkey was to welcome a number of released prisoners, and at least 70 have already been expelled in Egypt last week.
Of the time lost on the ceasefire agreement
Last month, Al Thani said that the approved agreement had followed the same framework as that agreed in December 2023, only two months after the war.
This current agreement was “fundamentally 13 months of waste of negotiation of details which have no meaning and which are not worth a single life that we have lost in Gaza or a single life of lost hostages because of the attack on attack “.
He described the “last chance to save Gaza” agreement and stressed that “peace will not occur” if there is no Palestinian state.
“We are targeting a Palestinian state and an Israeli state living side by side, peacefully,” he told Sky News.
Reuters, Yuval Barnea contributed to this report.