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Military strikes will not contain attacks by Yemen’s Houthis on commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea, but an end to the war in Gaza will, Qatar’s prime minister said on Tuesday during the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani described the current regional situation as a “recipe for escalation everywhere” and said Qatar believes that defusing the conflict in Gaza will stop the escalation on other fronts. “We need to address the central issue, which is Gaza in order to get everything else defused…if we are just focusing on the symptoms and n…