Qatar's Prime Minister Revealed The Gaza Ceasefire Deal Is The Same As The One Presented 13 Months Ago
“This is the framework that we have signed two days ago is the same framework that we agreed on on December 2023.”
Qatar's Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, has revealed that the ceasefire deal Israel and Hamas agreed to on Wednesday, Jan. 15, has been on the table for 13 months.
“This is the framework that we have signed two days ago is the same framework that we agreed on on December 2023,” Abdulrahman Al Thani said in an interview with Sky News.
“It is basically 13 months of a waste of negotiating details that has no meaning and doesn't worth any single life that we lost in Gaza or any single life of those hostages that lost their life because of the bombing, because they are among everyone else,” Abdulrahman Al Thani said.
He added that the ceasefire deal is “the last chance for Gaza” and that “failure is not an option”.
The ceasefire was set to begin on Sunday, Jan. 19, at 8:30 am local time in Gaza, but Israel continued its attacks on Gaza as Hamas did not provide a list of the hostages it was supposed to release on the first day due to “technical field reasons”.
Hamas later released in a statement on Telegram with the names of the three women Israeli hostages it is releasing on the first day as part of the deal.
They are Romi Gonen, 24, Emily Damari, 28, and Doron Shtanbar Khair, 31, according to the spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said it received the names of the three hostages to be released and notified their families, according to Al Jazeera.
It then announced that the ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza would start at 11:15am local time.
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