Negotiations for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas are persevering with however “need time”, host Qatar cautioned on Tuesday (July 8, 2025), after U.S. President Donald Trump voiced optimism a couple of potential breakthrough.
A contemporary spherical of oblique talks, after 21 months of preventing in Gaza, started on Sunday (July 6, 2025), with Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari confirming discussions had gone into a 3rd day.
“I don’t think that I can give any timeline at the moment, but I can say right now that we will need time for this,” Mr. Majed Al-Ansari instructed reporters at a daily briefing, when requested if a deal was shut.
Qatar, together with fellow mediators the United States and Egypt, has brokered back-and-forth talks geared toward a truce for the reason that earliest days of the conflict, which erupted with Hamas’s October 7, 2023 assault on Israel.
With the exception of a week-long truce in November 2023 and a two-month halt that started in January 2025, the oblique talks, principally held in Doha and Cairo, have failed to finish the hostilities.
Mr. Trump, throughout Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s go to to Washington, earlier mentioned the Doha talks have been going “very well” and that Hamas “want to have that ceasefire”.
Mr. Ansari declined to enter element concerning the negotiations, however mentioned they have been centered on a framework for talks.
“What is happening right now is that both delegations are in Doha, we are speaking with them separately on a framework for the talks,” he mentioned. “So talks have not begun, as of yet, but we are talking to both sides over that framework,” he added.
Mr. Ansari famous “positive engagement” and mentioned the truth that the negotiating groups hadn’t left the Qatari capital was “always a good sign”.
Two Palestinian sources near the discussions earlier instructed AFP the proposed deal included a 60-day truce, throughout which Hamas would launch 10 dwelling hostages and a number of other our bodies in change for Palestinians detained by Israel.
However, they mentioned, the group was additionally demanding sure situations for Israel’s withdrawal, ensures in opposition to a resumption of preventing throughout negotiations, and the return of the UN-led assist distribution system.
At the outset of the talks, Mr. Netanyahu mentioned Hamas’s response to a U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal, conveyed via mediators, contained “unacceptable” calls for.
