Sheikh Mohammed additionally guarantees to help the brand new administration and the rehabilitation of Syria’s infrastructure.
Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, has demanded that Israel “instantly withdraw” its forces from the United Nations-established buffer zone with Syria after Israeli troops entered the world following the removing of Syria’s longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.
Talking on Thursday at a information convention in Damascus alongside de facto Syrian ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa, Sheikh Mohammed criticised Israeli strikes to occupy the territory close to the Golan Heights in southern Syria.
“The Israeli occupation’s seizure of the buffer zone is a reckless … act, and it should instantly withdraw,” Sheikh Mohammed stated.
Israel deployed army items final month to the buffer zone, which lies alongside the Golan Heights and separates Syria and Israel, after al-Assad was toppled by opposition fighters led by al-Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group. The world has been an formally designated demilitarised zone as a part of a 1974 UN-brokered ceasefire.
As its troops encroached on the world, Israel additionally launched lots of of air strikes throughout Syria. It stated its air assaults had been a part of a marketing campaign to cease weapons from touchdown within the arms of “extremists”, a time period it has utilized to a number of teams in Syria, together with HTS.
Al-Sharaa stated on the information convention that his nation is able to welcome UN forces into the buffer zone.
“Israel’s advance within the area was as a result of presence of Iranian militias and Hezbollah. After the liberation of Damascus, I consider that they don’t have any presence in any respect. There are pretexts that Israel is utilizing right this moment to advance into the Syrian areas, into the buffer zone,” he stated.
“Qatar little question has a giant function to play. … They are going to play an energetic function in persevering with to train strain [on Israel to withdraw] along with Western and European nations and the USA of America,” he advised reporters in Damascus.
Sheikh Mohammed additionally promised to help the brand new administration and the rehabilitation of Syria’s infrastructure, devastated by practically 14 years of conflict.
“We’ll present the mandatory technical help to make the infrastructure operational once more and supply help to the electrical energy sector,” he stated, including that Qatar “extends its hand to our Syrian brothers for future partnerships”.
He additionally known as for sanctions on Syria to be lifted and highlighted that “sanctions may have a adverse affect on the help offered to Syria and the Syrian individuals.”
The US and European Union each imposed sanctions on al-Assad and his authorities for allegedly committing crimes through the conflict, which started after safety forces cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in 2011.
This month, the US Division of the Treasury issued a normal licence lasting six months that authorises sure transactions with the Syrian authorities, together with some vitality gross sales and incidental transactions.
The motion doesn’t take away any sanctions however will guarantee they “don’t impede actions to satisfy primary human wants, together with the supply of public providers or humanitarian help”, the Treasury Division stated.
The EU has agreed to satisfy on the finish of January to debate lifting sanctions on Syria.
