The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it would send its negotiating team to Qatar, this after Hamas said it had issued a "positive response" to a U.S.-mediated ceasefire ...

File: Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Majed Al Ansari, speaking to Reuters after Qatar helped mediate a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, in Doha, Qatar, January 20, 2025.

"The mediation of the US, Egypt and Qatar must be successful, Italy will do what is necessary in the G7 and the EU to support it. The possibility of a first 60-day ceasefire is a decisive step ...

In public, Qatar was insisting on the right to defend itself after Iran attacked a U.S. military site in the emirate. Behind the scenes, it was already mediating a truce between Israel and Iran.

Hamas has rejected a 60-day Gaza ceasefire proposal, a senior official in Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office told reporters Saturday.