Qatar: We will not become a tool to pressure any party in our mediation efforts

DOHA  (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Qatar has stressed that it will not accept becoming a tool to pressure any party and that it is committed to maintaining its role as an honest mediator between Hamas and Israel, diplomatic sources told Al Jazeera Arabic website.

The sources said on Sunday that Qatar affirms it cannot impose itself on the warring parties and cannot undertake any mediation unless it is asked to do so, and this includes the current mediation between Hamas and Israel.

The diplomatic sources said Qatar’s mediation disturbed certain parties, which have embarked on criticizing and attacking it, to pressure it to stop its role as an honest mediator and turn into a tool for exerting pressure on a party, something that Qatar had not done in the past successful mediations, both in the international and regional arenas.

For his part, Qatari premier and foreign minister Mohamed Al Thani has said Doha is in the process of evaluating its role in this mediation, stressing that Qatar sees this mediation as being misused for narrow political interests.