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Sultan of Oman Receives Letter from King of Bahrain

Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullatif al-Zayani delivers the message from King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. (Oman News Agency)
Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullatif al-Zayani delivers the message from King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. (Oman News Agency)
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Sultan of Oman Receives Letter from King of Bahrain

Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullatif al-Zayani delivers the message from King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. (Oman News Agency)
Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullatif al-Zayani delivers the message from King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. (Oman News Agency)

Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq received on Tuesday a written letter from the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

The letter was delivered by Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullatif al-Zayani to Asaad bin Tariq Al Said, Oman’s Deputy Prime Minister for International Relations and Cooperation Affairs and Special Representative for the Sultan, during a meeting in Muscat.

The Bahraini Foreign Minister said that al-Zayani also met with his Omani counterpart Badr Albusaidi during his visit to Muscat.

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Qatar PM Hopes Palestinian Authority Will Return to Gaza When War Ends

Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2025. (AFP)
Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2025. (AFP)
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Qatar PM Hopes Palestinian Authority Will Return to Gaza When War Ends

Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2025. (AFP)
Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2025. (AFP)

Qatar's Prime Minister said in Davos on Tuesday he hoped the Palestinian Authority would return to play a governing role in Gaza once the war with Israel comes to an end.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Switzerland, two days after the ceasefire Qatar helped broker came into effect in Gaza, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani cautioned that Gazans -- and not any other country -- should dictate the way the enclave will be governed.

"We hope to see the PA back in Gaza. We hope to see a government that will really address the issues of the people over there. And there is a long way to go with Gaza and the destruction," he said.

How Gaza will be governed after the war was not directly addressed in the deal between Israel and Hamas movement that led to an immediate ceasefire and hostage releases after nearly 15 months of talks mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the US.

Israel has rejected any governing role for Hamas, which ran Gaza before the war, but it has been almost equally opposed to rule by the Palestinian Authority, the body set up under the Oslo interim peace accords three decades ago that has limited governing power in the West Bank.

The PA, dominated by the Fatah faction created by former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, faces opposition from rival faction Hamas, which drove the PA out of Gaza in 2007 after a brief war.