ANKARA/WASHINGTON — Qatar’s prime minister said on Wednesday that his country is reevaluating its mediation role between Israel and Hamas.

“At this point right now, we are reevaluating our role as mediators and how the parties are engaged with this,” Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said during a press conference with his Turkish counterpart in Doha.

Qatar, which for more than a decade has hosted Hamas’ political office in Doha, has helped lead the hostage negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian militant group.

Qatari officials maintain this was done at the request of the Obama administration so that indirect lines of communication could be established with Hamas.

In an apparent jab at pro-Israel members of Congress and some Israeli officials, Sheikh Mohammed accused “politicians with narrow interests” of harming Qatar with their “destructive statements.”

As the hostage talks stalemated, Republicans and increasingly some Democrats have accused Qatar of failing to leverage its relationship with the US-designated terrorist group that it's sheltering.

A bipartisan group of eight senators, which included the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ben Cardin, released a statement in March calling for Qatar to expel Hamas’ political leaders if talks fail.

Earlier this month, a group of Republican senators introduced legislation that would revoke Qatar’s status as a major non-NATO ally unless it “expelled or agreed to extradite” Hamas members.

On Tuesday, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) called for Qatar to threaten Hamas with repercussions if it doesn’t accept the hostage deal on the table. If the Qatari officials don’t apply this pressure, “the United States must reevaluate its relationship with Qatar.”

The Qatari Embassy in Washington issued a statement calling his comments “not constructive.”

“It is certainly tempting to do as he suggests and walk away from seemingly intransigent parties,” the embassy added. “After all, neither of the warring parties does anything for Qatar.”