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Cairo, August 18 (Xinhua) - Hot Questions and Answers: Is Gaza close to a ceasefire?

Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhao Wencai and Wang Hao

A new round of ceasefire talks in Gaza was held in Doha, the capital of Qatar, with representatives from Israel, Qatar, the United States and Egypt attending, but the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) was absent. Qatar, the United States and Egypt said after the meeting that the talks were "constructive", while Hamas believed that the parties involved deliberately created a "false positive atmosphere".

How will this round of ceasefire talks proceed? Is there any substantive progress? What are the considerations behind the United States and Israel's "high-sounding" rhetoric?

How to talk

Under the mediation of Qatar, the United States and Egypt, ceasefire talks in Gaza resumed in Doha on the 15th. Israel sent a high-level delegation to participate and called it the "last chance" to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza.

Hamas responded coldly. A senior official of the Hamas Political Bureau said that Hamas would not participate in this round of negotiations and called on all parties to commit to the implementation of the agreements reached in previous rounds of negotiations instead of holding more negotiations blindly.

The negotiations ended on the 16th in the absence of Hamas. Qatar, the United States and Egypt issued a statement after the meeting, saying that the atmosphere of the negotiations was "positive" and "constructive." The statement said that the United States proposed a transitional proposal to Hamas and Israel, which was based on the agreement reached by the two sides in the past few weeks and "bridged the remaining differences between the two sides."