Qatar Prime Minister: Assassination of senior Hamas official complicates prisoner swap talks

Qatar Prime Minister addressed the families of Zionist prisoners and said that the assassination of Hamas' Deputy Head of Political Department, Martyr Salih al-Aruri, made negotiations for the exchange of prisoners difficult.

Jan 8, 2024 - 11:04
Qatar Prime Minister: Assassination of senior Hamas official complicates prisoner swap talks
Qatar Prime Minister: Assassination of senior Hamas official complicates prisoner swap talks

Israeli regime media reported today that Qatari Foreign Minister and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani gave a message to the families of Zionist prisoners held by Hamas and other Palestinian groups in Doha. According to the news in the Zionist press; This Qatari official told the families of Zionist prisoners that the assassination of Martyr Saleh al-Aruri, Deputy Head of Hamas' Political Department, made it difficult to progress in negotiations on the exchange of prisoners. The Israeli regime martyred 6 people near the Hamas office in the suburbs of Beirut, along with the deputy head of the Hamas political department, Salih al-Aruri, in the assassination operation it carried out on Wednesday night last week. Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement announced the same night that negotiations regarding the prisoner exchange were suspended. The same week, a delegation from the Israeli regime went to Doha to discuss the details of the prisoner exchange agreement with Qatari mediators.