میدل-ایست-آیQatar and Egypt call for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza
Qatar and Egypt call for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza
Qatar and Egypt, the states serving as guarantors of the Gaza ceasefire, on Saturday called on Israel to withdraw from Gaza and for an international stabilisation force be deployed, steps they say are essential to fully carry out the fragile agreement.
Mediators are now working to advance the next phase of the ceasefire, which outlines these measures, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said during a panel discussion at the Doha Forum conference in Qatar's capital on Saturday.
Israel and Hamas have not yet settled on how to proceed beyond the ceasefire agreement’s initial phase.
During that first phase, Israeli forces moved back behind a designated "yellow line" inside Gaza, while Hamas freed the remaining living hostages in its custody and returned the bodies of all but one of the deceased captives.
"Now we are at the critical moment. It's not yet there. So what we have just done is a pause," Al Thani told the annual diplomatic gathering.
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