Representatives of the Trump administration met with senior Hamas officials at a walled-off compound in Doha, Qatar three times in early March
Here's our behind-the-scenes account of the extraordinary talks
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The only way for almost all people in Gaza to escape the horrors of the war is by leaving via Egypt
And that is often a complicated & expensive ordeal, involving the hefty payments to an Egyptian firm that can get Palestinians on an approved travel list https://t.co/6nI9365lGy
Congress has reached a deal to ban US funding to UNRWA, the main U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinians in Gaza, through March 2025
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1/2 Some 50 engineers and technicians at Paltel, one of two Palestinian cell service providers in Gaza, have been crisscrossing the enclave to reinstate service in neighborhoods that have been plunged into blackouts for days and even weeks.
https://t.co/Ni5HCGnpLg
2/2 Speaking from an Emirati royal palace, Dahlan outlined a plan under which Israel and Hamas would hand power to a new and independent Palestinian leader who could rebuild Gaza under the protection of an Arab peacekeeping force
1/2 In an interview, Mohammed Dahlan, a close adviser to the UAE president and an exiled Palestinian politician, provided public insight into the types of postwar plans that Arab leaders are privately discussing
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Qatar is engaged in high-level talks w/ Hamas to deliver prescription medicines to Israeli hostages in Gaza at the same time it is making progress w/ Israel about allowing more medicine into the enclave for Gazans, officials say.
My latest for @nytimes
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In 2023, FP published a number of political profiles, many which focused on people vying for power or working for change. Here are five profiles worth revisiting: https://t.co/pB1mD6yai5
🧵 1/3 I recently asked Khalil el-Halabi, the father of a well-known Palestinian prisoner, if he hoped for his son to be released in the event that talks btwn Israel & Hamas lead to more swaps.
He responded: “I swear to God that I don’t want my son to be liberated in this way."
2/3 “Mohammed is a humanitarian, and he wouldn’t accept what happened," Halabi said, referring to his son Mohammed and Hamas's October 7 attack.
In rare public criticism of Hamas, Halabi, a seventy-year-old retired UN official, called the militant group's assault “unacceptable".