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T. Belman. Remember during the last Gaza war, Obama kept pushing Israel to enable Turkey and Qatar to arrange a ceasefire on their terms. Israel and Egypt said no and kept them out. Now under Obama’s pressure, no doubt, both Turkey and Qatar have insinuated themselves.

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Qatari envoy Mohammed Al-Emadi with Hamas PM Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza

Few Israelis, including the people who wake up at night to the clatter of Palestinians in Gaza digging tunnels under their floors, have never heard of Mohammed Al-Emadi. But his importance to their lives cannot be overestimated, because, as DEBKAfile reveals here, he is the Persian Gulf Emirate of Qatar’s de facto ambassador to the Gaza Strip and to Israel.

He is moreover Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s secret weapon against Hamas’s terror tunnels.

On Monday, Feb.8, Education Minister Naftali Bennett was reported as urging an immediate attack on the Hamas tunnels during a recent security cabinet meeting, of which he is a member.

The next morning, the defense minister furiously dismissed his colleague’s demands as “reckless, childish and irresponsible” and accused him of potentially dragging the country into war from cynical motives. “War isn’t child’s play and it costs human lives,” Ya’alon said.

It is not DEBKAfile’s business to defend Minister Bennett. He manages this very well by himself. Our concern is to explain that Ya’alon’s unwillingness to go into action against the Hamas tunnels is not down to the IDF’s inability to handle the mission, but to the new element in the Israel-Hamas equation: His cooperation with the Qatari ambassador, who has set up an office in Gaza City. This office has become the nerve center between two Palestinian organizations, Hamas and Jihad Islami, and Israel’s defense authorities.

The Qatari envoy’s office processes every message passing between Gaza and Tel Aviv.

For example, after the popular uproar in Israel over the terror tunnels, Israeli media carried reports that Hamas and Islamic Jihad had sent messages to assure Israel that they had no intention of launching a fresh round of warfare.

That message, carried secretly by the Qatari envoy, had two sections that were not published:
The two Palestinian groups asked Israel not to misunderstand their military actions in Gaza because, it was claimed, they were defensive not offensive.

Hamas and the Islamic Jihad also asked Israel to intercede on their behalf with Egyptian President Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi to ease his closure on the Rafah border town, part of Cairo’s tough crackdown on the two terrorist groups.

Israel did not respond directly. But on, Monday, Feb. 8, in an interview to the Saudi website “Elaf”, IDF Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordecai accused Hamas of treating in Gaza hospitals ISIS-affiliated terrorists who had been injured in Sinai attacks on Egyptian troops and police officers.

He revealed that, on the orders of the Hamas military wing, Ezzadin al-Qassem Brigades, those ISIS casualties were transferred to the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younes through secret tunnels.

Gen. Mordecai’s implied message was this: First stop giving ISIS terrorists medical care, then we may consider putting in a word for you in …read more

Source:: Israpundit

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