Qatar rejects Netanyahu’s ‘inflammatory’ Gaza comments: Foreign ministry

Gaza mediator Qatar on Sunday rejected comments from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that it needed to “stop playing both sides” in truce negotiations.

Qatar “firmly rejects the inflammatory statements... which fall far short of the most basic standards of political and moral responsibility,” foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said in a post on X.

“The time has come for Qatar to stop playing both sides with its double talk and decide if it’s on the side of civilization or if it’s on the side of Hamas barbarism,” Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on X on Saturday, adding: “Israel will win this just war with just means.”