Telephone call between Qatar's FM, Mahmoud Abbas

Qatar's foreign minister Hamad Bin Jasem Bin Jaber al-Thani yesterday made a telephone call with Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas.

News reports said that Abbas during the telephone conversation briefed Hamad with latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territories and the already finalized truce agreement.

An official at the Qatari foreign ministry expressed Qatar's welcome of the conditioned approval of four Palestinian groups for a provisional truce.

Worthy mentioning that the four Palestinian groups which announced their preconditioned approval of the truce are Fatah, Hamas, the Islamic Jihad and the Democratic Front For the Liberation of Palestine.