Qatar’s prime minister said today that the killing of Hamas’ second-in-command in an Israeli drone strike in Beirut last week had affected Doha’s ability to mediate between the Palestinian organization and Israel, and consequently affected “the complex process “.

However, the Gulf country will continue its efforts for a new ceasefire, following the one negotiated at the end of November, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said at a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Doha. .

The head of US diplomacy said in reference to the death of two Al Jazeera journalists on Sunday morning in a strike attributed to Israel, that it is an “unimaginable tragedy”. “I am deeply sorry” (…) It is an unimaginable tragedy,” he stressed during the press conference, adding that the number of “innocent Palestinians” who have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war is also a tragedy.

After Jordan and Qatar, the US Secretary of State arrived this evening in Abu Dhabi, a new stop on his tour of the Middle East, from where he will then go to Saudi Arabia on Monday.