Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majid Al-Ansari said on Tuesday that Doha needs to re-evaluate mediation efforts between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel at this stage, stressing his country’s commitment to mediation efforts and working to prevent a further security collapse in the region.

Al-Ansari added - in a press conference - that his country expressed its frustration at the repeated attacks on mediation efforts, especially the efforts made by Qatar, explaining that ministers in the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made negative statements about the Qatari role.

He stressed that Doha cannot accept any statements that are not consistent with the reality of its role in mediation efforts, stressing that it will not accept their use for political positioning or electoral purposes by any party.

The Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman stated that the attack on the mediator shows a lack of serious commitment to reaching an agreement, and also shows an absence of determination to work positively to reach an agreement, indicating that the first challenge before mediation is for both parties to have seriousness and flexibility to reach a result.

Al-Ansari expressed the mediators’ frustration over not reaching an exchange agreement during the month of Ramadan, after the negotiations continued in Doha and Cairo last month.

He stated that the negotiating teams regarding the war in Gaza are not currently present in Doha.

The Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman stressed that Qatar's re-evaluation of mediation efforts does not change its humanitarian commitment to Palestine, noting the continued arrival of aid to Gaza and Doha's reception of injured people.

Al-Ansari said that the humanitarian commitment to Palestine is a fixed and non-negotiable issue, as he put it.

Speaking about a possible role for Turkey in mediation efforts to end the war in the Gaza Strip, Al-Ansari said that coordination is continuing with Ankara regarding ways to stop the war in Gaza.

He added that Türkiye is one of the most important countries supporting the mediation efforts led by Qatar to stop the war on Gaza.

Regarding Israel’s threat to invade Rafah, Ansari said that the escalation leads to faltering negotiations, the possibility of reaching an agreement, and a greater deterioration in the humanitarian situation, stressing that the international community must work to stop the expected Israeli attack on Rafah, which is crowded with displaced people.

On April 17, Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani said that Doha was fully and accurately evaluating its mediation in the Gaza crisis, after its mediation was misused to serve narrow political goals by some, as he put it.

Yesterday, Monday, the Hamas movement condemned the statements of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and said that it was an attempt to hold the movement responsible for obstructing reaching an agreement, which contradicts the movement’s flexible positions to facilitate reaching an agreement, which clashed with Netanyahu’s intransigence and procrastination.