By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Mossad head David Barnea announced that he was given orders by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to return from Qatar after a “dead end” in negotiations.

“Due to the dead end in negotiations, and following instructions from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mossad head David Barnea ordered the negotiating team in Doha to return home.”

Barnea’s announcement continued that Hamas didn’t fulfill its end of the agreement to release all women and children in captivity.

The Mossad says that a negotiating team that had been in Qatar has been ordered home with talks on extending a truce reaching a “dead end.”

“Due to the dead end in negotiations, and following instructions from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mossad head David Barnea ordered the negotiating team in Doha to return home,” says a rare statement from Netanyahu’s office issued on behalf of the spy agency.

“The Hamas terror group did not fulfill its obligations under the agreement that included releasing all the women and children that were on the list provided to Hamas that had authorized it,” the statement says.