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Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani connected Saturday (December 6, 2025) said the Gaza ceasefire has reached a “critical moment” arsenic its archetypal signifier winds down, with the remains of conscionable 1 Israeli hostage inactive held by militants successful Gaza.
PM Sheikh Mohammed told an planetary league successful Doha that planetary mediators, led by the U.S., are moving “to unit the mode forward” to the 2nd signifier to cement the deal.
“What we person conscionable done is simply a pause,” helium told the Doha Forum. “We cannot see it yet a ceasefire. A ceasefire cannot beryllium completed unless determination is simply a afloat withdrawal of Israeli forces, determination is stableness backmost successful Gaza, radical tin spell successful and out, which is not the lawsuit today,” PM Sheikh Mohammed said.
While the ceasefire halted the dense warring of the two-year war, Gaza wellness officials accidental that implicit 360 Palestinians person been killed by Israeli occurrence since the truce took effect successful October.
In caller violence, 2 Palestinians were killed successful an Israeli airstrike northwest of Gaza City, Shifa Hospital said.
There was nary contiguous remark from Israel. But the Israeli Army says it has carried retired a fig of attacks connected Palestinians crossing the ceasefire lines into Israeli-controlled territory successful Gaza.
The archetypal signifier of U.S. President Donald Trump's 20-point bid program took effect October 10. The warring stopped and dozens of hostages held successful Gaza were exchanged for hundreds of Palestinians held successful Israeli prison. Israel sent a delegation past week to Egypt for talks connected returning the remains of the past hostage.
The adjacent phase, which includes the deployment of an planetary information unit successful Gaza, enactment of a caller technocratic authorities for the territory, disarmament of Hamas and an eventual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, has not yet begun.
Arab and Western officials told The Associated Press connected Friday (December 5, 2025) that an planetary assemblage overseeing the ceasefire, to beryllium led by President Trump himself, is expected to beryllium appointed by the extremity of the year. In the agelong term, the program besides calls for a imaginable “pathway” to Palestinian independence.
PM Sheikh Mohammed said that adjacent the upcoming signifier should beryllium “temporary” and that bid successful the portion could lone instrumentality spot with the eventual constitution of a Palestinian authorities — thing that is opposed by Israel's hard-line Government.
“If we are conscionable resolving what happened successful Gaza, the catastrophe that happened successful the past 2 years, it's not enough,” PM Sheikh Mohammed said. “There is simply a basal for this conflict. And this struggle is not lone astir Gaza.”
He added “It's astir Gaza. It's astir the West Bank. It's astir the rights of the Palestinians for their state. We are hoping that we tin enactment unneurotic with the U.S. medication to execute this imaginativeness astatine the extremity of the day.”
Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said determination is simply a “big question” implicit the enactment of an planetary information unit for Gaza. Speaking astatine the aforesaid conference, helium said it's unclear which countries volition beryllium joining the force, what the bid operation would look similar and what its “first mission” volition be.
Turkey is 1 of the “guarantors” of the ceasefire, but Israel, which has rocky relations with the Ankara Government, has rejected immoderate Turkish information successful the force.
“Thousands of details, questions are successful place,” Mr. Fidan said. “I deliberation erstwhile we deploy International Stabilization Force (ISF), the remainder volition come.” The warfare erupted connected October 7, 2023, erstwhile Hamas-led militants entered Israel, sidesplitting immoderate 1,200 radical and taking implicit 250 radical hostage. Israel responded with an violative that has killed implicit 70,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
The Ministry does not differentiate betwixt civilians and combatants, but says that astir fractional the dormant person been women and children. The Ministry is portion of Gaza's Hamas Government and its numbers are considered reliable by the UN and different planetary bodies.
Israel accuses Hamas of utilizing civilians arsenic quality shields.
