Qatar prime minister says Netanyahu "killed any hope" for Israeli hostages

Srinagar, Sep 10: Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani said that he believes Israel’s strike on Doha yesterday “killed any hope” for the hostages remaining in Gaza.

Al-Thani said he could not predict what Hamas’ response to the latest US principles for a ceasefire would have been had Israel not struck Doha on Tuesday, but said that he believed that Israel and Hamas “are going to run out of chances” to secure a ceasefire; CNN reported.

“I was meeting one of the hostages families the morning of the attack,” Al-Thani said. “They are counting on this (ceasefire) mediation, they have no other hope for that.”

“I think that what (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu has done yesterday, he just killed any hope for those hostages,” the prime minister added.