Official Palestinian sources told the BBC that negotiations between Israel and Hamas in Qatar are "on the verge of collapse." According to the report, a senior official said that Israel "bought time" during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington, and "deliberately delayed" the process by sending a delegation to Doha "without real decision-making authority." According to sources who spoke with the BBC, the issues still in dispute are the distribution method of humanitarian aid and the IDF withdrawal from Gaza. A senior official on the Palestinian negotiating team said that "Israel was never serious about these talks. They used them to buy time and create a false impression of progress."