Despite criticism from the Trump administration that Israel’s strike on Qatar was ill-advised, Israel’s ambassador to the US maintains that the two countries remain “united”.
“We’ve never had a better friend than the White House than President Trump, and we’re united in the effort of eliminating Hamas as being a threat to peace in the Middle East,” Yechiel Leiter said during an interview on Fox News.
“We have acted together in the past. We’ll act together in the future,” he said.
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Qatar will continue trying to mediate a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza despite Israel’s deadly attack on a Hamas compound in Doha, its prime minister said on Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteSix people died, including top Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya’s son and a Qatari security officer, in an unprecedented airstrike that threatened to derail flagging mediation efforts.
Israel’s strike on leaders of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas in Qatar undermines peace efforts in the Gaza Strip, fueling tensions across the region, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a statement.
ReplyDeleteThe Qatari leadership regards Israel’s strike on members of the political bureau of the Palestinian movement Hamas in Doha as an act of state terrorism, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said.
ReplyDelete"Today’s Israeli attack on Qatari territory can only be regarded as an act of state terrorism, carried out personally by [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu as part of his policy and ongoing attempts to undermine the security and stability of the region," the prime minister emphasized at a press conference.
He also said that Qatar’s air defense systems were unable to detect and repel Israel’s missile strike on Doha.
"As for the matter of air defense, everyone saw how [our systems] dealt with the missile salvo from Iran and repelled it without any damage. Unfortunately, the Israeli enemy used weapons that were not detected by this radar," he said at a press conference. The Prime Minister noted that the United States, whose troops are stationed in Qatar, informed the country’s authorities about the missile strike "ten minutes after the attack" on Doha.