Israel-Hamas war: Qatar says it will reassess role as mediator

“ Qatar is in the process of a complete re-evaluation of its role,” the gulf state’s prime minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, told a Doha news conference, according to Agence France-Presse.

Qatar, with the United States and Egypt, has been engaged in weeks of talks aimed at securing a truce in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.Israel-Hamas war: Talks on ceasefire, hostages at ‘delicate phase’, says Qatar Qatar, which has hosted Hamas’s political leadership since 2012 with the blessing of the United States, has rebuffed frequent criticism of its mediation from Israel including by prime ministerhas reportedly deployed extra artillery and armoured personnel carriers to the Gaza Strip periphery, suggesting that the military is preparing for its long-threatened ground offensive on Rafah, the only place of relative safety for at least 1.4 million displaced Palestinian civilians.

The IDF confirmed on Tuesday it was buying 40,000 tents to prepare for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians who have sought shelter in Rafah, the southernmost town in the Gaza Strip, which is only major urban area in the territory that Israeli ground forces have not yet entered.

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