Israel accuses Turkey of sabotaging Gaza cease-fire ("All Qatar’s moves were coordinated with Turkey....")

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has accused Turkey and Qatar of sabotaging the Gaza cease-fire proposal drafted by Egypt.

Lieberman told Norwegian Foreign Minister Borg Brende that Hamas lied when it said Cairo had not sent it the cease-fire proposal, Israeli daily Haaretz reported. 

Israel’s security cabinet approved the deal on the morning of July 14 and stopped its attacks earlier in that day. But Hamas said they had never been consulted over the proposed deal.

Lieberman said Egyptian intelligence officials had given the details of the initiative to Mousa Abu-Marzouk, head of the Hamas mission in Cairo, the daily reported.

“Hamas was ready to consider the Egyptian proposal favorably but Qatar wanted to screw the Egyptians and told them not to accept it,” Haaretz quoted Lieberman as saying to Brende. 

• He said all Qatar’s moves were coordinated with Turkey and both these states are pushing Hamas leaders not to accept the Egyptian proposals.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said July 16 Ankara that was conducting “intense diplomacy” to reach a truce that would include “all players - Hamas and other Palestinian groups,” after holding talks with Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani also visited Turkey on late July 15 and met President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. 
[hurriyetdailynews.com]
17/7/14
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