Mediators Qatar and Egypt were pushing to salvage the Gaza ceasefire Wednesday, a Palestinian source told AFP, after Israel and the United States told Hamas to release hostages this weekend

In a column titled “Qatar is Hamas, and Hamas is Qatar,” Israeli Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh quoted Yigal Carmon, president of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI): “Any Arab who hears American officials say that Qatar is America’s ally would burst into laughter.

Egyptian and Qatari mediators were working to salvage the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday, which risks being derailed because of a dispute between the two sides, according

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Israel published their names after receiving the list from Hamas through mediators Qatar and Egypt and getting consent from their families.

Gilad Erdan sent a letter to Donald Trump urging that Qatar be made to "host not just Hamas leaders, but all Hamas supporters."

Mousa Abu Marzouk, the head of Hamas’s foreign relations office, said he would not have supported such an attack on Israel had he known of the devastation it would wreak on Gaza.

His rhetoric was not just disturbing – it was dangerous.This wasn’t an isolated case of radical bias. It was a symptom of a larger, well-funded infiltration by Qatar, which has spent billions to manipulate American academia,

Its new task force will go after supporters in and outside the U.S.