Qatari Prime Minister heading to Egypt for talks on Gaza
Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani is heading to Egypt today for talks on a ceasefire deal for Gaza, sources have told Al Jazeera Arabic.
Egypt and Qatar have been mediating between Israel and Hamas in an attempt to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. A source told Al Jazeera that “intensive discussions” are currently taking place in Egypt between a Hamas delegation and mediators.
The latest round of indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas, facilitated in Doha by mediators, lasted for several weeks before concluding on July 25 without any results.
Meanwhile the gap between Netanyahu's and Hamas' demands has only grown, all from Israel's side.
‘Historically genocides don’t end through negotiated solutions’
Abdullah Al-Arian, an associate professor of history at Georgetown University in Qatar, says that in light of the news that the Qatari PM is heading to Egypt today for ceasefire talks, it is important to remember that these exact types of negotiations have occurred before, but it is “a lack of Israeli political will” that has ultimately stalled them.
Israel “has continued to pursue this genocide and taking it to new, horrific, unprecedented levels”, he said, adding that there has been a lack of international pressure to secure a ceasefire agreement.
He told Al Jazeera that during the last ceasefire between January and March “the US, Qatar and Egypt were all the guarantors of that agreement, and when it was violated by Israel, there was no accountability.
“Historically, genocides don’t end through negotiated solutions … They end usually because the party that committed the genocide is forced to end it, usually through external pressure, external intervention of some kind, and that has not happened yet,” he said.
