STORY: Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Saturday that talks aimed at solidifying the U.S.-backed truce in the war in Gaza that went into effect October 10 are at a key point. 

He spoke during a panel discussion at the Doha Forum conference in Qatar.

"Now, we are at a critical moment. It's not yet there, so what we have just done is a pause, we cannot consider it yet a ceasefire. A ceasefire cannot be completed unless there is a full withdrawal of the Israeli forces, there is stability back in Gaza, people can go in and out, which is not the case today." 

Negotiations on the next stages of U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the two-year war in the Palestinian enclave have been continuing.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the conference that not moving forward would be a huge failure.

"So if, as an international community, we fail in implementing the second phase of the peace plan in bringing real order and peace to Gaza, it will be a huge failure. On the part of the international system, on the part of the United States, and because President Trump has actually led this Gaza Peace Plan."

Trump's plan calls for an interim technocratic Palestinian government in Gaza, overseen by an international "board of peace" and backed by an international security force. 

Agreeing on the makeup and mandate of that force has been particularly challenging.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said it should deploy along the "yellow" line buffer zone in Gaza.

"We need international forces to be deployed alongside the so-called yellow line in order to verify and to monitor the upholding of the ceasefire. The mandate should be, from our point of view, of a peacekeeping rather than peace enforcing. You know, and this is very, very important issue."

The Israeli military said on Saturday it killed three Palestinian militants who crossed that yellow line in two separate incidents moving toward its forces in northern Gaza.

While Palestinian local health authorities said that Israeli fire had killed seven people in the northern part of the enclave on Saturday.