MEDI1TV Afrique : Réévaluation - 22/04/2024
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00:00This week, the Qatari Prime Minister said that his country will re-evaluate its role in mediation between Israel and Hamas.
00:25At this stage, we are re-evaluating our role as mediators and the way in which the parties are engaged in this mediation.
00:33Qatar has been hosting a political office of Hamas for more than a decade.
00:37Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, it has greatly contributed to the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian faction.
00:43It is difficult, it is a diplomatic work that requires a lot of finesse, knowing that Qatar is not responsible for the result.
00:53To speak alone, Israel and the Palestinians have collectively assumed the impasse on the issue of hostages and prisoners.
01:01The ceasefire that we are always waiting for, however, is a political resolution of this conflict.
01:06Qatar is regularly solicited by the great powers for its mediation or other possibilities, which is the case,
01:13because it is the facilitation of mediation, knowing that in the region, Qatar is not the only one to be active.
01:18Saudi Arabia has already engaged in the past on this Palestinian issue.
01:22Let's also mention Oman, which works more on the Yemeni issue.
01:26So we can say that there is a regional tradition of mediation.
01:29Since the failure of the truce in December, Qatar, alongside the United States and Egypt,
01:35wanted to negotiate the framework of a new ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.
01:39The first phase of the agreement envisages a six-week pause in the fighting,
01:44during which Hamas would release about 40 of the few hundred hostages still alive,
01:49in exchange for the release by Israel of a large number of Palestinian prisoners.
01:54The efforts of Trev are praised all over the world.
01:57Now we have to come back to this question of re-evaluation.
02:00Prime Minister Qatari did not bring additional elements that make it possible to understand precisely the reasoning of Doha,
02:06what is more suitable, what is less suitable, or maybe, but we do not know, or what is not suitable.
02:11It is true that the role of facilitator of Qatar is not quite the same from the moment when the geopolitical context evolves.
02:18The Iranian attack on Israel, the assault presented as imminent on Hafez,
02:22the impasse of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations,
02:25it's been a long time since Qatar has evolved and re-evaluated its position.
02:29It is quite normal, all diplomacies do it.
02:32But here it is worth saying, nuance, and in this diplomatic world where the slightest word is millimetred,
02:38big nuance, let's wait and see what happens.