New York, Oct. 30 -- Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, in a veiled jab at Hamas, accused the terror group of violating the October 9 ceasefire agreement with Israel, after its fighters attacked IDF personnel and killed one of the reserve officers in Rafah on Tuesday.

Though stopping short of directly naming the group, Al-Thani indirectly accused Hamas of triggering hostilities, referring to the terror group as "the Palestinian party."The deadly incident in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip was "very disappointing and frustrating" for Qatar, said al-Thani, who was giving an onstage interview at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, reports Israeli media.

"What happened yesterday was a viol...