DOHA, Nov 9 (Reuters) – The CIA and Mossad chiefs met with the Qatari prime minister in Doha on Thursday to debate the parameters of a deal for hostage releases and a pause in Hamas-Israel preventing within the Gaza Strip, a supply briefed on the assembly instructed Reuters.
The result of the talks was unclear.
Qatar, the place a number of Hamas political leaders are primarily based, has been main efforts to mediate between Hamas and Israeli officers for the discharge of hostages taken by Hamas militants once they rampaged into Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,400 folks.
Israel then launched an unrelenting bombardment of Hamas-ruled Gaza and late final month launched an armoured invasion of the enclave, the place over 10,000 folks have now been killed, 40% of them kids, in line with Palestinian officers.
David Barnea, head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, CIA Director William Burns and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani held the assembly after Qatari mediators met officers from the Hamas political workplace on Wednesday evening and mentioned potential parameters of a deal.
The benefit of the trilateral assembly was to deliver all three events collectively at one desk in actual time to hurry up the method, the supply stated.
The talks additionally included a dialogue aboutr permitting humanitarian imports of gasoline into Gaza, to this point refused by Israel lest, it says, it’s diverted to Hamas for preventing functions.
A supply instructed Reuters on Wednesday the talks touched on a launch of 10-15 hostages in trade for a one- to two-day humanitarian pause within the conflict that’s devastating Gaza.
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in a while Thursday arrived within the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi, the place he met with Emirati President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in line with a press release by the Emiri Diwan.
Sheikh Tamim was accompanied by the Qatari prime minister.
The aim of the go to was not instantly clear. In contrast to Qatar, the UAE has had diplomatic relations with Israel since a U.S.-brokered normalisation settlement in 2020.
Reporting by Andrew Mills; writing by Maha El Dahan; enhancing by Toby Chopra and Mark Heinrich
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