The Times of Israel reports: “Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said Saturday that Doha does not consider the current situation in Gaza to be a ceasefire, arguing that this would require an Israeli withdrawal from the entirety of the enclave.

Al Thani’s comments were made during a panel discussion at the Doha Forum, and were later echoed by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who laid out Ankara’s vision for a successful implementation of the second phase of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, which the US is looking to begin in the coming weeks.

‘We are at the critical moment,’ Al Thani said about the Gaza peace process.

‘What we have just done is a pause. We cannot consider it yet a ceasefire. A ceasefire cannot be completed unless there is a full withdrawal of the Israeli forces, there is stability back in Gaza [and] people can go in and out, which is not the case today,’ he maintained…”