Mossad Chief Visits Qatar for Talks With Hamas

Date: 08 July 2024 - 22:40

News ID: ۱۲۹۱۶۸

AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – The head of the Zionist regime’s Mossad spy agency, David Barnea, is scheduled to fly to Qatar for talks on a possible Gaza ceasefire and captive deal with Hamas, according to Israeli media on Monday.
Barnea will meet with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, CIA Director William Burns, and Egypt’s intelligence chief Abbas Kamel, the Israeli public broadcaster KAN reported.
A four-party meeting between Qatar, Egypt, the U.S., and Israel is expected to take place in Doha amid hopes of advancing the Gaza ceasefire talks.
The Mossad chief had visited Doha on Friday for discussions on resuming the indirect negotiations for a ceasefire deal with Hamas.
Meanwhile, the head of the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, arrived in Egypt on Monday to take part in talks to resolve disputed points in the ceasefire talks, KAN said.
For months, efforts by the U.S., Qatar, and Egypt to mediate an agreement between the Zionist regime and Hamas resistance group for a deal on captives and ceasefire have been hampered by Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of Hamas’ call to halt hostilities.
The regime, flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal carnage on Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023.
Over 38,500 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 87,900 others injured, according to local health authorities.
Vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.
The regime stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.