ANKARA: Turkey’s intelligence chief has met a delegation from Hamas in Ankara and discussed the negotiations for a truce in the Gaza Strip, official broadcaster TRT reported.
Ibrahim Kalin, chief of Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency, had held a meeting with the delegation from the Hamas political bureau leadership, TRT cited Turkish security sources, without giving more details. Ankara has condemned Israel’s attack on Gaza.
Turkey’s spy agency has been in touch with all actors including Hamas, Qatar, Israel, and the United States and is conducting intensive diplomacy for a truce in the Gaza strip, TRT further reported.
Israel’s brutal military attack on Gaza has killed over 41,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
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Earlier, the UN chief Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned the latest Israeli attack on a school serving as a shelter in Gaza, killing around six staffers from the UN Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, along with 12 others, including children and women.
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Guterres has termed the continued lack of effective protection for Palestinians in Gaza during the current Israel war in the besieged enclave as “unconscionable”.
