Hamas Hails Qatar-Saudi Agreement
In a statement, Hamas expressed hope that the Persian Gulf crisis will be fully resolved and unity and cohesion returns to the region, Quds Press reported.
It called for regional dialogue to end disagreements among Arab and Muslim countries.
Hamas also hoped that the year 2021 will be the year of realization of Palestinian national unity.
Kuwait’s foreign minister announced that an agreement has been reached between Riyadh and Doha to end a three-year feud by reopening the Saudi airspace and land and sea borders to Qatar as of Monday.
“An agreement has been reached to open airspace and land and sea borders between Saudi Arabia and Qatar as of this evening,” Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Ahmad Nasser al-Sabah said on Kuwait TV ahead of a Persian Gulf Arab summit in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
Kuwait’s foreign minister said a declaration would be signed at the summit, which was postponed from its usual December date as Riyadh pushed for an agreement toward ending the rift.
The emir of Qatar plans to attend the Tuesday summit in Saudi Arabia at the head of a high-ranking delegation, according to Al Jazeera.
The deal between Riyadh and Doha may put an end to the row in which Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic, trade and travel ties with Qatar in mid-2017.
The four boycotting countries had accused Qatar of supporting terrorism. Doha denies the charges and says the embargo aims to curtail its sovereignty.
Doha had been set 13 demands, ranging from closing Al Jazeera television and shuttering a Turkish base to cutting links to the Muslim Brotherhood and downgrading ties with Iran.
Qatar rebuffed the demands as "unreasonable."
