Qatar PM hopes Palestinian Authority will return to Gaza when war ends

Sheikh Mohammed says Palestinians successful Gaza – and not immoderate different state – should dictate the mode the enclave is governed.

Qatar’s premier curate has said helium hopes the Palestinian Authority (PA) volition instrumentality to play a governing relation successful Gaza erstwhile Israel’s warfare ends.

Israel launched the warfare connected Gaza connected October 7, 2023 aft Hamas led an onslaught connected confederate Israel that killed astatine slightest 1,139 people, mostly civilians, according to an Al Jazeera tally based connected Israeli figures.

Israel’s ferocious 15-month battle connected Gaza has killed much than 47,000 people, according to Palestinian wellness authorities, and destroyed overmuch of the territory’s civilian infrastructure. Israel has severely restricted supplies of assistance to the territory, starring to warnings of a humanitarian crisis.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani was speaking astatine the World Economic Forum’s yearly gathering successful Davos, Switzerland connected Tuesday, 2 days aft the ceasefire that Qatar helped broker came into effect successful Gaza.

The premier curate cautioned that Palestinians successful Gaza – and not immoderate different state – should dictate the mode the enclave volition beryllium governed.

“We anticipation to spot the PA backmost successful Gaza. We anticipation to spot a authorities that volition truly code the issues of the radical implicit there. And determination is simply a agelong mode to spell with Gaza and the destruction,” helium said.

‘Time wasted’

Sheikh Mohammed, who is besides Qatar’s overseas minister, said that his state was atrocious for the clip wasted successful the talks betwixt Israel and Hamas.

“When we look astatine and bespeak connected what we person achieved successful the past fewer days, we felt truly atrocious for each the clip … wasted successful these negotiations,” helium said.

“We person seen that the model that we person agreed connected successful December is the 1 that’s been realised a mates of days ago, and … I’m talking astir December ’23, this means conscionable a twelvemonth of negotiating details” the premier curate said.

He added that this included “some meaningless things compared to the lives of the radical that they person lost”.

How Gaza volition beryllium governed aft the warfare was not straight addressed successful the statement betwixt Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian radical that ran Gaza until the war.

The ceasefire statement betwixt the sides was mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States and includes a truce, the speech of Israeli captives for Palestinian prisoners successful Israeli jails, and a surge successful humanitarian assistance deliveries.

Israel has rejected immoderate governing relation for Hamas, but it has besides opposed regularisation by the Palestinian Authority, the assemblage acceptable up nether the Oslo interim bid accords 3 decades agone that has constricted governing powerfulness successful parts of the occupied West Bank.

The PA, dominated by the Fatah faction created by erstwhile Palestinian person Yasser Arafat, faces absorption from rival faction Hamas, which prevailed successful elections and past drove the PA retired of Gaza successful 2007 aft a little war.