Qatar has sent warning messages to Israel that the performance of its government and the provocative statements of its president, Benjamin Netanyahu, regarding the second phase of the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement, pose a threat to the first phase of the agreement as well.

Today, Monday, the newspaper "Haaretz" quoted an Israeli source familiar with the details of the Qatari messages as saying that "the Qataris conveyed angry messages, and reminded time and time again that the agreement between Israel and Hamas is with them as well, and that they guarantee the agreement, and that Israel's performance poses a danger to the continued release of the kidnapped in the first stage."

According to the newspaper, Hamas’s delay of several hours last Friday in transferring the names of the three prisoners who were released on Saturday is an indication of the danger of not completing the first phase, which is posed by Israel’s performance and Netanyahu’s statements. It is not unlikely that if negotiations on the second phase are accelerated, the delay in transferring the names of the Israeli prisoners who will be released the following day will be repeated next Friday, and perhaps their release will be delayed as well, which means blowing up the first phase and not completing it.

A low-level Israeli delegation arrived in Doha yesterday, headed by the deputy head of the Shin Bet, who the newspaper described as being favored by Netanyahu. Although this delegation was supposed to begin the second phase of negotiations, with a week’s delay, it discussed technical arrangements related to the first phase, and is not authorized to discuss anything related to the second phase. The Israeli political-security cabinet is scheduled to discuss the second phase during a meeting it will hold tomorrow.

Netanyahu's statements to right-wing American and Israeli media outlets about the displacement of Gaza residents, following the displacement plan announced by US President Donald Trump last Tuesday, along with the failure to send an Israeli delegation to Doha last Monday to begin negotiations on the second phase, have angered Qatar.

Following Netanyahu's statements about the displacement of the population of the Gaza Strip to Saudi Arabia, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement yesterday, stating that "the State of Qatar condemns in the strongest terms the provocative statements of the Israeli Prime Minister regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state in the lands of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and considers them a flagrant violation of international law and a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter."

The statement added that "the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterates the State of Qatar's categorical rejection of calls for the forced displacement of the brotherly Palestinian people, and warns that such calls would hinder the chances of peace and renew confrontations in the region, and stresses that a just and sustainable peace will not be achieved except by enabling the Palestinians to impose their sovereignty over their lands."

Qatar has sent similar messages to the United States. US envoy Steve Witkoff is scheduled to visit the Middle East, including Qatar, next week.