Netanyahu warns that Israel can hit Hamas again in Qatar after Trump declares

How people killed in Israel’s surprise strike at a Hamas meeting in the capital of Qatar They were buried in the great Mosque of Doha on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to launch new attacks against the country, a nearby ally of the United States, if he refused to expel the political representatives of the terrorist group designated by the United States and Israel.

The Qatar government has condemned Israel’s strikes, saying that “the criminal attack constitutes a shameless violation of all international laws and norms, and raises a serious threat to the security of the state of Qatar and its people.”

The United States has trusted Qatar to act as an intermediary with Hamas, with which it has long had ties. Working through the political position of Hamas in Doha, both the Trump administration and the Biden administration before it has pressed, together with Egypt, to negotiate a high fire in the almost two years War between Israel and Hamascaused by the attack of the Palestinian group on October 7, 2023. High Israeli officials have also traveled to Qatar many times to participate in these negotiations since the war began.

Qatar also houses the largest American military base in the Middle East, the Al-Udeid air base, where thousands of US military personnel are parked.

President Trump, in a publication in his Truth social network on Tuesday, said that the White House had been “notified by the United States Army that Israel was attacking Hamas who, very unfortunately, was located in a Doha section.”

American officials told News themezone that the United States was notified of Israel’s attack, since it was about to happen, and that the United States did not coordinate with Israel in the planning of strikes.

“This was a decision made by Prime Minister Netanyahu, it was not a decision made by me,” Trump said in his position on social networks. “Bombing unilaterally within Qatar, a sovereign nation and a nearby ally of the United States, who is working very hard and assuming risks with us to negotiate peace, does not advance Israel or the objectives of the United States.”

He called to “eliminate” Hamas “a decent objective,” but added that he had spoken with Netanyahu and leaders in Qatar, and had assured the prime minister in Doha, “that such a thing will not happen again on his ground.”

For his part, Netanyahu has continued to defend the attack and suggested that Israelí could launch another.

“I tell Qatar and all the nations that house terrorists, expel them or take them to justice,” Netanyahu said Wednesday. “Because if you don’t, we will.”

Netanyahu drew a parallel between Israel’s attack in Doha and the US invasion of Afghanistan governed by the Taliban after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2002 against the United States.

“We were after the terrorist intellectual authors who committed the massacre of October 7. And we did it in Qatar, which gives safe refuge, houses the terrorists, finances Hamas,” Netanyahu said.

President Trump said in his publication on social networks that, in his phone calls, Netanyahu “told me that he wants to make peace,” but some regional officials have said that the attack in Doha condemned the possibilities of a negotiated ending in the war in Gaza.

Qatar’s prime minister said Netanyahu had “killed any hope” to return to the remaining Israeli hostages held by Hamas, 20 of which they think they are alive in Gaza.

Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al Thani said, before appearing on Thursday at the United Nations, that Israel’s attack had inflamed antiisraeli feelings among many Arab nations in the Middle East, telling CNN: “I think what Netyahu has done yesterday (Tuesday), only killed any hope for those hostages.”

Al Thani spoke while thousands of Palestinians continued to flee from the city of Gaza ahead of Israel’s continuous offensive there. The numbers that leave the city have grown in recent days, although many have not heard the orders of Israel to leave because they say they no longer have the strength or money to relocate.

The plans of the Israeli army for the next phases of its operation in what it calls the last remaining strength of Hamas aims to take care of the largest Palestinian city, which is already devastated from the previous incursions and the IS. Now experimenting famineaccording to the world’s main expert body on food crises.

The plans have generated a generalized conviction and have been added to the global isolation of Israel, which intensified more this week after the strike over Qatar.

The Thani was expected to attend a UN of the UN Security Council later on Thursday, part of a diplomatic impulse of Qatar after the strike. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Doha also said Thursday that a summit of emergency Arab-Islamic leaders was summoning next week in Qatar to discuss the attack.

Hamas said on Tuesday that his main leaders survived the strike, but that five lower level members were killed, including Khalil Al-Hayya’s son, Hamas leader for Gaza and his main negotiator, as well as three bodyguards and the head of the Al-Haya office.

Hamas, who has only confirmed the murder of his leaders months later, offered no immediate proof that Al-Hayya and other high-level figures had survived. Israel has not confirmed the identities of any member of the group murdered by their attacks.

Qatar has organized Hamas’ political leadership for years in Doha, partly on a United States application to encourage negotiations between the militant group and Israel. Israel had also approved This agreement and before October 7, 2023, had also given its blessing to Qatar to channel millions of cash support to Hamas every month.

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