A look inside Qatar's operation room mediating the truce between Israel and Hamas

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2023
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Inside Qatar's National Command Centre, in Doha, Qatari diplomats monitor the ongoing truce between Israel and Hamas.

The operations room in Doha monitors the truce and the release of hostages and has direct and real-time lines of communication with Israel, the Hamas political office in Doha and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The first pause in the seven-week-old war is meant to be accompanied by the release of 50 women and children hostages captured by militants who raided Israel on Oct. 7, in exchange for 150 Palestinian detainees from Israeli jails.

Qatar, Egypt and the United States are pressing for the truce to be extended beyond Monday but it is not clear whether that will happen.

Qatari diplomats work inside an operation room set up to coordinate the truce and release of hostages between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the National Command Centre in Doha, Qatar November 26, 2023. (Photo by Imad Creidi)