The Israeli prime minister has briefed his government, saying that while he decided to dispatch a team to the Qatari capital today, the mandate for the negotiating team is quite limited in that they’re not negotiating for an end to the bombardment, but a pause in the fighting upwards of 40 days, Al Jazeera reports.
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