Qatari PM, Egyptian president back efforts to reach Gaza ceasefire

Previous indirect talks betwixt Israel and Hamas, facilitated by mediators, ended without immoderate results to extremity the Israel-Palestine war.

Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has held talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to sermon a ceasefire statement successful Gaza, arsenic Israel intensifies its violative to prehend Gaza City.

“El-Sisi and the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar stressed the value of efforts to scope a ceasefire statement successful Gaza,” according to a connection by the Egyptian presidency connected Monday.

The 2 leaders “affirmed their rejection of the reoccupation of the Gaza Strip and the displacement of Palestinians”, arsenic Israel plans to prehend Gaza City and unit Palestinians from the enclave’s main municipality centre. They besides insisted that establishing a Palestinian authorities is “the way to peace”.

A root told Al Jazeera that “intensive discussions” are presently taking spot successful Egypt betwixt a Hamas delegation and mediators. Hamas, which governs Gaza, has been calling for a ceasefire, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rebuffed the offer.

Egypt, Qatar and the United States person been mediating betwixt Israel and Hamas since the opening of the war successful Gaza that has killed 62,000 Palestinians, much than fractional of them women and children.

Efforts by mediators person truthful acold failed to unafraid a lasting ceasefire successful the ongoing war, which implicit much than 22 months has created a dire humanitarian situation successful the Gaza Strip.

A truce brokered by Qatari, Egyptian and US mediators that came into unit successful January was breached by Israel successful March. Since then, it has imposed a full blockade, causing famine and starvation. More than 260 Palestinians person died owed to the Israeli-induced starvation crisis.

The latest circular of indirect negotiations betwixt Israel and Hamas, facilitated successful Doha by mediators, lasted for respective weeks earlier ending connected July 25 without immoderate results.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, visiting the Rafah borderline crossing with Gaza connected Monday, said that Qatar’s premier curate was visiting “to consolidate our existing communal efforts successful bid to use maximum unit connected the 2 sides to scope a woody arsenic soon arsenic possible”.

Alluding to the dire humanitarian conditions for the much than 2 cardinal radical surviving successful the Gaza Strip, wherever United Nations agencies and assistance groups person warned of a humanitarian crisis, Abdelatty stressed the urgency of reaching an agreement.

“The existent concern connected the crushed is beyond imagination,” helium said.

Thousands of Palestinians person been forced to fly again from Gaza City up of an impending Israeli offensive.

‘Genocides don’t extremity done negotiated solutions’

Commenting connected the Qatari premier minister’s travel to Egypt, Abdullah Al-Arian, an subordinate prof of past astatine Georgetown University successful Qatar, said it was important to retrieve that akin negotiations person occurred before, but it is “a deficiency of Israeli governmental will” that has yet stalled them.

Israel “has continued to prosecute this genocide and taking it to new, horrific, unprecedented levels”, helium told Al Jazeera, adding that determination has been a deficiency of planetary unit to unafraid a ceasefire agreement.

“Historically, genocides don’t extremity done negotiated solutions … They extremity usually due to the fact that the enactment that committed the genocide is forced to extremity it, usually done outer pressure, outer involution of immoderate kind, and that has not happened yet,” the world stressed.

On Monday, quality rights radical Amnesty International accused Israel of enacting a “deliberate policy” of starvation successful Gaza arsenic the UN and assistance groups continued to pass of famine successful the Palestinian enclave.

In a study quoting displaced Palestinians and aesculapian unit who person treated malnourished children, Amnesty said: “Israel is carrying retired a deliberate run of starvation successful the occupied Gaza Strip.”

The UN and the planetary assemblage person been slamming Israel for blocking indispensable assistance from entering the war-torn enclave.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies