David Barnea, the director of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, met with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani in Doha on Thursday.

According to the Israel Hayom daily, they discussed the possibility of restarting negotiations for a hostage deal with the Hamas terrorist group.

However, an Israeli political source told Kan News that Barnea traveled to Doha “on Mossad-related matters, not regarding the negotiations for a hostage deal.” He also made clear in the meeting with Sheikh Mohammed that “a partial deal, one where only some of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip are recovered, is off the table,” according to the source cited by Kan News .

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday night that Israel would only agree to end the war against

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