“The American leadership is trying to use its leverage on Qatar in order to exert influence on the Hamas politburo and force it to agree to very vague terms of a truce with Israel, which the US is pushing for. Therefore, Hamas might be considering a backup site should pressure on Qatar becomes too strong,” said the senior researcher at the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST).

Regarding Hamas insisting that Russia should be one of the guarantors of the ceasefire, the pundit added: "Hamas rightfully does not trust the United States, since the latter actively supports Israel. Accordingly, Hamas wants independent guarantors in the form of Russia, China and Turkiye."

"An IAF aircraft directed by IDF intelligence struck and eliminated the terrorist Fadi Al-Wadiya, who served as a significant operative in the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization," the IDF statement reads.

"The nuclear industry makes a huge contribution to ensuring nuclear parity and the defense capability of our state," Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a congratulatory message to the staff and veterans of the Rosatom state corporation during the 70th anniversary of the commissioning of Russia's first nuclear power plant, the Obninsk NPP.