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People check the site on an Israeli strike next to a tent housing displaced Palestinians, in Gaza City, on July 8, 2025. Indirect Gaza ceasefire talks resumed on July 8 in Qatar. AFPCaption
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call back a delegation conducting indirect talks with Hamas in Qatar for a ceasefire in Gaza.
"I call on the Prime Minister to immediately recall the delegation that went to negotiate with the Hamas murderers in Doha," Ben Gvir said on Tuesday in a post on X on the third day of talks between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement.
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