On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Information Channel’s “Special Report,” Qatari High Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thania mentioned {that a} offer between Israel and Hamas can’t be reached when there’s a “fundamental difference between the two parties. One party wants just to retrieve the hostage[s] and continue the war and the other party wants to end the war and doesn’t think about the hostages.”
Al-Thani stated [relevant remarks begin around 5:10] that he’s happy to peer hostage Edan Alexander absolved and required “a lot of pressure” to perform.
He persevered, “Now, we wanted this to be, also, as a first step toward having a complete hostage deal. Unfortunately, the next day, being followed by a massacre on a hospital in Gaza.”
Host Bret Baier next snip in to mention, “Obviously, the Israelis, obviously, say they were going after senior Hamas leadership.”
Al-Thani replied, “Yeah, but going after [a] senior Hamas leader doesn’t mean killing 70 people just as collateral damage, which has been the justification for the last year and a half. We cannot reach a deal when we have two different — like a fundamental difference between the two parties. One party wants just to retrieve the hostage[s] and continue the war and the other party wants to end the war and doesn’t think about the hostages.”
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