Doha: Qatari newspapers addressed several prominent Arab and local topics in their Sunday editorials, including the phone call received by HE Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani from HE Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Yvette Cooper. The newspapers noted that during the call, HE Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs stressed the need to intensify regional and international efforts to end the brutal war on the Gaza Strip, ensure the sustainable and unhindered flow of humanitarian aid to the Strip, and release prisoners and detainees.
According to Qatar News Agency, newspapers stressed that the international community’s fulfillment of its responsibilities in obligating the Israeli entity, the occupying power, to end its illegal occupation of Palestinian territory and reach a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue, in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative and the two-state solution, which guarantees the establishment of an independent, viable Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, remains the only guarantee for achieving sustainable peace in the Middle East.
On local matters, newspapers highlighted the qualitative shift Qatar is witnessing in adopting artificial intelligence technologies as part of its strategy for digital transformation and building a knowledge-based economy. The country seeks to harness these advanced technologies in vital areas such as education, health, security, and government services.
For its part, Al-Watan newspaper pointed out in its editorial that HE Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs received a phone call from HE Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, which dealt with discussions of cooperation relations between the two countries and ways to support and strengthen them, and a number of topics of common interest. During the call, HE Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs stressed the need to intensify regional and international efforts to end the brutal war on the Gaza Strip, ensure the sustainable and unhindered flow of humanitarian aid to the Strip, and release prisoners and detainees, the paper added.
Qatar has always worked towards these goals and has devoted time and effort to implement them, Al-Watan stressed, adding that the horrific tragedy taking place in the Gaza Strip has begun to take on more dangerous dimensions with the violent bombing and indiscriminate destruction that claimed the lives of dozens of Palestinians yesterday as a result of a series of violent Israeli attacks that began at dawn.
Concluding its editorial, Al-Watan called on the international community to intervene decisively and firmly, and the world is on the threshold of the UN General Assembly meeting, which must constitute an opportunity for effective international solidarity that leads to a stop on this brutal war.
In turn, Al-Sharq newspaper stated that protecting the Palestinian people from the ongoing Israeli crimes and aggression against them, their rights, and their land remains the responsibility of the international community, in accordance with international law, international legitimacy resolutions, and relevant international and regional agreements and treaties. The paper stressed that the establishment of a Palestinian state and its right to absolute sovereignty over all its land occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem, its airspace, territorial waters, natural resources, and its borders with neighboring countries, remains inevitable and consistent with the right to self-determination, human rights, and all relevant international resolutions.
The newspaper denounced Israeli calls to expel the Palestinian people from their land, which requires the international community to stand firmly together to confront the extremist and provocative policies of the Israeli occupation, its continued violation of the rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, its contempt for international laws and agreements, and its toxic efforts to obstruct peace prospects, particularly the two-state solution.
Al-Sharq believes that the continuation of the genocide on the Gaza Strip, its crimes in the West Bank, its violations of religious sanctities, its plans to expand settlements and Judaize Jerusalem, its restrictions to prevent the entry of humanitarian aid to civilians, and the relentless targeting of civilians, civilian infrastructure, and various aspects of life will not succeed in forcing the Palestinian people to leave their land and confiscate their legitimate rights.
Al-Sharq concluded by affirming that the international community’s fulfillment of its responsibilities in obligating Israel, the occupying power, to end its illegal occupation of Palestinian territory and reach a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue, in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative and the two-state solution, which guarantees the establishment of an independent, viable Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, remains the only guarantee for achieving sustainable peace in the Middle East.