DOHA, December 2. /TASS/. All of Hamas’ senior officials and their families have left Qatar, the Sky News Arabia television channel said, citing a source,

"All the Hamas leaders, along with their families, have left Qatar and have gone elsewhere," the unnamed source said.

Qatari foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari said on November 9 that his country’s authorities had decided to suspend their mediatory efforts toward a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip because they didn’t see a desire to end the conflict on the part of the parties. On November 19, he said that the Hamas leaders representing the movement in the negotiating group on Gaza were no longer in Doha. While the Hamas office in the Qatari capital city was set up to maintain open lines of communication, once Qatar's mediation efforts stalled, it saw no reason to force the movement's representatives to stay in the country.

The Times of Israel reported on November 19, citing an unnamed Arab diplomat, that senior Hamas officials had left Qatar for Turkey but later Hamas refuted these reports.