Sheikh Mohammed said Palestinians in Gaza, not other countries, should decide how to govern the enclave.
Qatar’s prime minister said he hopes the Palestinian Authority (PA) will return to its governing role in the Gaza Strip once Israel’s war ends.
Israel opened the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, after Hamas led an attack on southern Israel that killed at least 1,139 people, most of them civilians, according to an Al Jazeera tally based on Israeli figures. started a war.
Israel’s ferocious 15-month assault on Gaza has killed more than 47,000 people and destroyed much of the region’s civilian infrastructure, according to Palestinian health authorities. Israel has severely restricted aid supplies to the territory, leading to warnings of a humanitarian crisis.
On Tuesday, two days after a Qatar-backed ceasefire took effect in the Gaza Strip, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani spoke at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. .
The prime minister warned that Palestinians in Gaza, not other countries, should decide how the enclave is governed.
“We hope that the PA will return to Gaza. We hope that there will be a government that truly addresses the problems of the people over there. And there is a long way to go to solve Gaza and the destruction.” ” he said.
“Waste of time”
Sheikh Mohammed, who is also Qatar’s foreign minister, said his country regretted wasting time in talks between Israel and Hamas.
“Looking back at what we have achieved in the last few days, we are truly sorry for the time we have wasted in negotiations,” he said.
“It turns out that the framework agreed in December was realized a few days ago.…I am talking about December 2023, which means detailed negotiations have been going on for a year. “We will,” the Prime Minister said. .
He added that this includes “some things that are meaningless compared to the lives lost.”
The agreement between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian organization that ran Gaza until the war, does not directly address how Gaza will be governed after the war.
The ceasefire agreement between the two sides was brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the United States and included a ceasefire, the exchange of Israeli prisoners in Israeli prisons with Palestinian prisoners, and a surge in humanitarian aid deliveries.
Israel rejects Hamas’s governing role, but the Palestinian Authority, which was established under the Oslo Interim Peace Accords 30 years ago and has limited governing powers in parts of the occupied West Bank, is ruled by the Palestinian Authority. I am also against it.
The Fatah-dominated PA, founded by former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, won elections and faces opposition from rival faction Hamas, which forced the PA out of Gaza in 2007 after a brief war. .
