Qatar, Egypt and Washington announced on Friday evening that they are making joint efforts to restore the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.

The Qatari Foreign Minister, Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, said, "Qatar is committed to continuing efforts with its partners to return to calm in Gaza."

He added, "The continued bombing of the Gaza Strip after the end of the truce complicates mediation efforts and exacerbates the humanitarian catastrophe in the Strip."

For his part, National Security Council spokesman at the White House, John Kirby, said that Washington continues to work with Israel, Egypt and Qatar on efforts to restore the humanitarian truce, adding, "We want to release more hostages and bring more aid into the Gaza Strip."

He considered that "Hamas bears responsibility for the end of the truce, and must provide a list of hostages that can be exchanged in order for aid to continue to flow."

Rashwan pointed out that the efforts include “extending it for other periods, to allow confronting the dangerous humanitarian conditions in Gaza, which have reached the point of catastrophe, whether by stopping the war on them, or by quickly and intensively entering humanitarian and relief aid to them.”

On Friday morning, a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel ended with Qatari-Egyptian mediation and lasted for 7 days, during which prisoners and hostages were exchanged and humanitarian aid was brought into the Strip.

Immediately after the end of the truce, Israel resumed its war on Gaza, targeting various areas in the north, center and south of the Strip since morning, resulting in dozens of martyrs and hundreds of wounded.

The head of the Egyptian State Information Service, Diaa Rashwan, said, “Egypt greatly regrets breaking the temporary humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip,” noting that “Egypt is currently making maximum efforts with partners (Qatar and the United States) to return to the truce as soon as possible.”