Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has met with two representatives from the United States to review the “the latest developments in the ceasefire negotiations” for Gaza, the Emir’s office said Monday.
Al Thani met President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, as well as President Joe Biden’s Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk. The pair have been working together in recent days with mediators to try to resolve some of the last sticking points to a ceasefire deal, sources told CNN.
Qatar’s Emir talked with Biden on Monday about joint mediation efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war, the Emir’s administrative office said.
He also received a Hamas delegation to review the latest developments, his office said.
During the meeting with Hamas, Al Thani “reiterated the state of Qatar’s firm position on the justice of the Palestinian cause, the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, and the establishment of their independent state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital,” his office said.
