Qatar says it’s confident Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal addresses ‘all major issues’

By AFP 21 January 2025, 1:05 pm

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Attendees at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv pose with pictures of the three women released by Hamas on January 19, 2024. (Deborah Danan/JTA)

Qatar is confident that the deal it helped mediate for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas addressed all the major issues at stake in the war, the foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday.

“We are confident in the deal when it comes to the language of the deal, when it comes to the fact that we hashed out all the major issues on the table,” Majed al-Ansari tells a regular press conference, cautioning: “Any breach from either side or a political decision… could obviously lead the deal to collapse.”