Qatar, along with Egypt and the United States, has been engaged in months of behind-the-scenes efforts to broker a Gaza truce and a hostage-prisoner swap.

Among the latest targets were three front companies used by key financier Hamza Abdelbasit to funnel funds to the group.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday the Gaza war would not end until the “elimination” of Hamas’s capacity to govern and make war, after US President Joe Biden said Israel had offered a new peace roadmap.

On May 18, Gantz threatened to resign from the war cabinet unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a post-war plan for the Gaza Strip

Israel and Hamas, engaged in heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip, both angrily rejected on Monday moves to arrest their leaders for war crimes made before an international court.

“Crooked Joe is taking the side of these terrorists, just like he has sided with the Radical Mobs taking over our college campuses…”

It also said the Israeli premier “agreed to ensure the Kerem Shalom crossing is open for humanitarian assistance for those in need”

“The reality in this moment is the only thing standing between the people of Gaza and a ceasefire is Hamas.”

“Even in these very difficult times we are determined to get a ceasefire that brings the hostages home — and to get it now.”

A large majority of the approximately 2.2 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip had fled to the south during the war