The director of the CIA will meet in Europe with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts plus the Qatari prime minister, aiming to negotiate a truce and hostage release in the Israeli-Hamas war, US media reported Thursday. The November hostage-prisoner swap occurred during a week-long truce under which some 100 people were freed by Hamas in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners …
Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, ‘Following the impasse in the negotiations and at the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, David Barnea, head of the Mossad, ordered his team in Doha to return to Israel’ Israel on Saturday announced the withdrawal of its Mossad negotiators from Qatar, which is mediating the ongoing talks aimed at securing a renewed ceasefire …
Here’s how the negotiations involving Israel, Hamas, Qatar, the US and Egypt unfolded. Diplomatic responses to the October 7 attack Qatar, a close US ally, approached the White House shortly after October 7 with sensitive information regarding the captives and the potential for their release, officials told Reuters. According to Reuters reports, US Middle East envoy Brett McGurk held daily …
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