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Sharm el-Sheikh car crash victims are Qatari security guards, not hostage negotiators — source
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
The victims of a deadly car accident outside Sharm el-Sheikh are not Qatari diplomats involved in the hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas, as reports have claimed, but rather Qatari security guards and protocol officers, a source familiar with the matter tells The Times of Israel.
The source says that Egyptian media reports claiming that three members of Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Abdulrahman Al Thani’s negotiation team were killed in the crash are false.
Two people have been pronounced dead, however, and two more are in critical condition.
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