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UN, Qatar envoys meet with Israel official to discuss situation in Gaza

February 27, 2020 at 1:48 pm

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nikolay Mladenov (L) and head of Qatar’s National Committee for the Reconstruction Gaza, Ambassador Mohammed Al-Emadi in Gaza on 12 July 2017 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]

UN and Qatari envoys yesterday met with the Coordinator for Israeli Government Activities in the Occupied Territories, Major General Kamil Abu Rokon, and discussed the situation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported.

According to the Israeli Public Broadcaster, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov and Qatari envoy Mohammed Al-Emadi met with Abu Rokon in Jerusalem, Israeli Public Broadcaster Kan said.

During the tripartite meeting, which was initiated by Abu Rokon, the three men discussed the situation in Gaza and the latest Israeli escalation which was triggered by the Israeli army killing and then kidnapping the body of a Palestinian man in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis.

They discussed how to regain stability and return the situation in the coastal enclave, which has been enduring a strict Israeli siege since 2007, to normal.

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