Sheikh Mohammed says Palestinians in Gaza – and never another nation – ought to dictate the way in which the enclave is ruled.
Qatar’s prime minister has stated he hopes the Palestinian Authority (PA) will return to play a governing position in Gaza when Israel’s struggle ends.
Israel launched the struggle on Gaza on October 7, 2023 after Hamas led an assault on southern Israel that killed no less than 1,139 individuals, largely civilians, in keeping with an Al Jazeera tally primarily based on Israeli figures.
Israel’s ferocious 15-month assault on Gaza has killed greater than 47,000 individuals, in keeping with Palestinian well being authorities, and destroyed a lot of the territory’s civilian infrastructure. Israel has severely restricted provides of help to the territory, resulting in warnings of a humanitarian disaster.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani was talking on the World Financial Discussion board’s annual assembly in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, two days after the ceasefire that Qatar helped dealer got here into impact in Gaza.
The prime minister cautioned that Palestinians in Gaza – and never another nation – ought to dictate the way in which the enclave can be ruled.
“We hope to see the PA again in Gaza. We hope to see a authorities that can actually tackle the problems of the individuals over there. And there’s a lengthy approach to go along with Gaza and the destruction,” he stated.
‘Time wasted’
Sheikh Mohammed, who can also be Qatar’s international minister, stated that his nation was sorry for the time wasted within the talks between Israel and Hamas.
“Once we take a look at and mirror on what we now have achieved in the previous few days, we felt actually sorry for on a regular basis … wasted in these negotiations,” he stated.
“We now have seen that the framework that we now have agreed on in December is the one which’s been realised a few days in the past, and … I’m speaking about December ’23, this implies only a yr of negotiating particulars” the prime minister stated.
He added that this included “some meaningless issues in comparison with the lives of the those who they’ve misplaced”.
How Gaza can be ruled after the struggle was indirectly addressed within the settlement between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian group that ran Gaza till the struggle.
The ceasefire settlement between the edges was mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the USA and features a truce, the alternate of Israeli captives for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and a surge in humanitarian help deliveries.
Israel has rejected any governing position for Hamas, nevertheless it has additionally opposed rule by the Palestinian Authority, the physique arrange underneath the Oslo interim peace accords three a long time in the past that has restricted governing energy in elements of the occupied West Financial institution.
The PA, dominated by the Fatah faction created by former Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat, faces opposition from rival faction Hamas, which prevailed in elections after which drove the PA out of Gaza in 2007 after a short struggle.
