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Xinhua News Agency, Doha, August 14 (Reporter Wang Qiang) According to Qatar's Al Jazeera TV on the 14th, a new round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations will be held in Doha, the capital of Qatar on the 15th.

Attendees reportedly included officials from Israel, Qatar, the United States and Egypt, but it was unclear whether the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) was attending.

A U.S. State Department spokesman told reporters on the 14th that Qatar "assured us that it is working to ensure that Hamas also sends representatives to the meeting."

The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on the 14th saying that Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed had a phone call with US Secretary of State Blinken on the same day. The two sides discussed the latest progress in mediation efforts aimed at ending the Gaza conflict and emphasized the need to ease regional tensions.

In a joint statement issued late on the 8th, the leaders of Qatar, Egypt and the United States called on Israel and Hamas to resume negotiations in Doha or Cairo, Egypt, on the 15th to bridge all remaining differences and begin implementing relevant agreements. The Israeli Prime Minister's Office issued a statement on the 9th saying that Israel agreed to resume ceasefire negotiations in Gaza and planned to send a negotiation delegation on the 15th. Hamas issued a statement on the 11th calling on the mediators of the ceasefire negotiations in the Gaza Strip to formulate an implementation plan based on the results of previous consultations and force Israel to implement it, rather than seeking more rounds of negotiations or new proposals. (End)