Rubio meets Netanyahu in Israel while American Qatar ally gathers Arab neighbors to condemn Doha Attack

The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, met Monday in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while the nearby ally of the United States Qatar brought together the leaders of other Arab nations for a summit to issue a unified sentence of Israeli air attacks last week addressed to the leaders of Hamas in the capital of Qatari.

On Sunday, President Trump urged Netanyahu’s government to be “very careful” after air attack in Doha.

“They have to do something about Hamas, but Qatar has been a great ally for the United States,” Trump told journalists at Morristown airport in New Jersey.

Speaking on Monday with Rubio, Netanyahu praised the Trump administration for his firmness, International support increasingly unique of Israel’s tactics in their continuous War against Hamas – which has long been designated a terrorist organization by the United States, Israel and the European Union – in the Gaza Strip.

“His presence here today sends a clear message that the United States is with Israel,” Netyahu said.

The Israeli leader has strongly defended the strike last week in Doha, saying that Israeli combat planes went to the main leaders of Hamas responsible for the terrorist attack led by Hamas, on October 7, 2023, which killed some 1,200 people and saw another 251 taken as hostages back to Gaza.

Hamas has said that five of its members were killed, but that Israel could not kill its planned objectives: high -ranking members of the group’s political negotiation team, which for a long time were based on Doha, with the knowledge and support of Israel and the United States.

Rubio, pressed to respond to anger in Doha for the strike last week, told journalists at the press conference with Netanyahu that “we have solid relationships with our Gulf allies … We have been constantly committed to them before what happened and after what happened.”

“Regardless of what has happened, the reality is that we still have 48 hostages. We still have Hamas that keeps Gaza as a hostage and uses civilians as human shields … Whenever they are around there will be no peace in this region,” Rubio said.

A senior state department official told News themezone on Monday that Rubio will travel to Qatar after his visit to Israel, before flying to the United Kingdom for the state visit of President Trump there.

Going to journalists on Saturday at the Andrews joint base before his departure, Rubio said he would talk to Netanyahu to “understand much better those that his plans are moving forward.”

“What happened has happened. Obviously, we were not happy with that. The president was not happy with that,” said Rubio, referring to the strike in Doha. “Now we need to advance and discover what is coming later. Because at the end of the day, when everything is said and done, there is still a group called Hamas, which is an evil group that still has weapons and is terrifying.”

Qatari’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, issued a new Israel’s attack condemnation On Sunday, and called “for the international community to stop its double ratings and punish Israel for their crimes.”

Qatar is a key ally of the United States and for a long time it has hosted the largest American military base in the Middle East, the Al-Udeid air base, where there are thousands of American troops based.

A source familiar with the discussions at the Summit of Emergency Arab and Muslim leaders in Doha on Monday told News themezone on Monday that a resolution draft would see them condemn, the “hostile acts of Israel, which include genocide, ethnic cleaning, [and] Hunger “in Gaza, which, as he will say, threatens” the perspectives of peace and coexistence “in the region.

Israel has vehemently denied multiple accusations that his war in Gaza is equivalent to a genocide against the Palestinians, arguing that his military campaign is only against the militants of Hamas whom he accuses of putting civilians in damages when using them as human shields.

The source familiar with the draft of the Declaration of the Summit of Doha said that the resolution would call “about the international community to coordinate efforts to impose international sanctions on Israel, suspending the supply of weapons, ammunition and military material, and review the diplomatic and economic relations, to stop their crimes against the Palestinian people and attacks in regional countries.”

The Israel War has killed more than 64,000 Palestinians in the almost two years since it began, according to the Ministry of Health, led by Hamas de Gaza, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians. Israel rejects that figure, but has not offered its own estimate and does not allow foreign journalists to enter Gaza and operate independently.

The United Nations considers the counting of the Ministry of Health of Gazán, the most reliable information about the number of deaths by the war.

Last month, Israel declared the city of Gaza, the largest population center in the Palestinian territory, a “dangerous combat zone” and a strength of Hamas. In recent days, Israeli military forces have increased an aerial assault to the city, knocking down several more high height buildings on Sunday in what was already an apocalyptic landscape.

The UN General Assembly voted overly on Friday to support a solution of two states to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the long-standing call to believe an independent Palestinian state together with Israel as part of a negotiated peace agreement, which has been a cornerstone of the United States foreign policy for decades.

President Trump, who previously expressed his support for a solution of two states, has more recently distanced his administration of adhesion to that objective, despite Growing international support For the Palestinian state.

Israel and the United States were among the 10 countries that voted against the resolution, and before the vote, Netanyahu reiterated the position of their government that “there will be no Palestinian state.”

The UN resolution also condemned the alleged attacks of Israel against civilians and civil infrastructure in Gaza and its “siege and hunger, which have produced a devastating humanitarian crisis of catastrophe and protection.”

The non -binding resolution, which the 142 nations supported, also requested the release of all the remaining Israeli hostages and described a vision in which the Palestinian authority, which is currently partially administered by the West Bank Israeli, would govern and control all Palestinian territory, with an administrative committee of transition established immediately under its grid after a fire after a fire after a gaza after a fire after a grid after a grid.

“In the context of finishing the war in Gaza, Hamas must end his government in Gaza and deliver his weapons to the Palestinian authority,” the statement said.

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