Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al Ansari has said that the delegations from Hamas and Israel are present in Doha for the indirect talks mediated by Qatar, Al Jazeera reports.

“What is being talked about is a general framework paper and detailed talks have not yet begun, we seek to bridge the gap for the negotiating framework and to find a suitable environment,” he said during a news conference.

“It’s too early to talk about any details, but there are positive impressions. The process takes time and cannot provide a clear schedule to reach results,” he added.

The efforts of the mediators are focused on reaching a stage to end the war, and to reach that stage, a negotiation framework is currently being discussed before the start of the final stage, which is a discussion that would like the detailed proposal, he added.

“We provide a framework and preliminary principles after agreeing on them, you hope to move on to the stage of discussing the proposal,” Ansari said.

He said that the negotiation process needs to be calm, and leaks lead to a media flow that may affect the course of the negotiation, adding that they were “irresponsible behaviour”.

“Regarding the powers of the Israeli delegation, this cannot be talked about accurately, but I say that the level of involvement is positive. We do not set schedules for negotiations, but they continue until positive results are reached,” the spokesperson said.