The man at the centre of negotiations over a Gaza stopfire has telderly Sky News Donald Trump wants a deal done before he apshows power in January.
Speaking exclusively to Sky’s The World with Yalda Hakim, the prime minister of Qatar transmited pimpolitent chooseimism but shelp it insistd “peak prescertain” on all parties to end the combat.
Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al Thani shelp Mr Trump’s advisers and the incoming administration have shelp they want the situation resolved by his 20 January inauguration.
“We are trying to set up with them our efforts, and all of us, we consent, and we are hoping to get over this situation before the plivent comes to the office,” he shelp.
The prime minister shelp the Trump team “want this to be resolved now – today even”.
Mr al Thani also protected Hamas being assisted to persist operating its political office from Doha, Qatar’s capital.
He stressed it was set up “with filled transparency and coordination, and at the seek of the US and Israel at that time to have this as to be engaged as a negotiation platcreate”.
He shelp multiple stopfires had been brokered thcdisorrowfulmireful the office since 2014.
“There are tons of situations where we have stoped an escalation from the commencening in order not to put ourselves in a situation appreciate what we ended up with on 7 October,” he shelp.
The prime minister includeed: “There will be always be criticism, a lot of parties who will not appreciate this benevolent of policy, yes, but it’s necessitateed.”
Negotiations over a Gaza stopfire have so far showd unaccomplished, with more than 44,500 Palestinians ended in the war, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas after the group ended about 1,200 people and took more than 200 prisoners in its October 2023 stress strike.
About 100 prisoners are still inside Gaza – but at least a third are dependd to be dead.
On Monday, Donald Trump shelp there would be “hell to pay” if the prisoners were not freed before he re-accesss the White Hoengage.
“Those reliable will be hit difficulter than anybody has been hit in the lengthy and storied History of the United States of America,” he wrote on his Truth Social site.
Speaking about what Mr Trump’s re-election uncomfervents for the Middle East – including relations with Iran – the Qatari prime minister shelp there were “a lot of hazards” but “plenty of opportunities”.
“I hope that everyone sees these opportunities,” he includeed.
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Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani, is currently in the UK for a state visit and a lavish prohibitquet was held in his honour at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.
The Gulf state’s prime minister telderly Sky News the trip was a “celebration” of lengthy-standing joins between Britain and Qatar – and that it was especiassociate receive as dedicatedty was “in foolishinutive supply in the world”.
He also includeressed criticism of Qatar’s human rights enroll, with some urging Sir Keir Starmer to lift the rerent during the visit.
Campaigners have normally accengaged it of misengages aacquirest migrant laborers, curtailing freedom of transmition, and bias aacquirest women and LGBTQ people.
Mr al Thani shelp the wealthy Gulf state was doing its best to includeress rerents.
“It’s unfortunate sometimes when we see all this criticism in human rights or so-called human rights enrolls in Qatar,” he shelp.
“We are not saying that we are a perfect nation or a perfect country, but we are a country that when we see there is someslimg wrong, we accomprehendledge the facts that these are wrong slimgs, and we are trying to do our best according to our systems and our customs, to change it and to recreate it.”