Qatar: Israel reports attack on Hamas leaders in Doha-WadePhul reacts

According to its own information, Israel’s army attacked the Hamas leadership. “For years, these members of the Hamas leadership led the operations of the terrorist organization, are directly responsible for the brutal massacre of October 7th and orchestrated and steered the war against the state Israel“The Israeli military said.

The military did not name the exact place of the attack. Shortly before, however, there were reports of explosions in the capital of Qatar given. Hamas’ political representation is based in Doha. The attack had hit a residential building “in which several members of the Hamas Politburos live in the Qatarian capital Doha,” said an employee of the Qatarian Foreign Ministry of the British BBC. The Qatarian news site Doha News showed a destroyed building in front of a black off -road vehicle. Also Doha News reported that Israel attacked the Hamas negotiation team.

According to the White House, US President Donald Trump regrets that Qatar has become the place of an Israeli attack on Islamist Hamas. The Republican sees Qatar as a close ally and friend of the United States, said the White House.

In the statement that government spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt read, it was said that a “one -sided bombing within Qatar as a sovereign state and a close ally of the United States”, neither Israel serves. Together with the USA, the country “committed and brave” for peace. The president wanted the war to end and all hostages from the Gaza Strip.

According to the White House, the US government was informed by the US military that Israel would attack Islamist Hamas, which “unfortunately” is in part of Doha.

Trump then instructed his special envoy Steve Witkoff to inform Qatar about the upcoming attack. At the same time, Leavitt emphasized that the removal of Hamas, which had benefited from the misery of the people in Gaza, was a goal worth striving for.

Qatar contradicted this presentation of events. A US government agent only called in Qatar at the moment when the explosions had already been heard, said the spokesman for the Qatarian Foreign Ministry Madschid al-Ansari.

The United States is Israel’s most important ally and largest weapon supplier. According to the White House, the US military knew in advance that Israel would attack the Hamas tip. This is “unfortunately” in Doha, it said from Washington.

According to government spokeswoman Leavitt, Trump also spoke to Israel’s head of government Benjamin Netanyahu and with representatives of Katar. He had assured the latter that something like this would not happen again on her floor.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) sentenced Israel’s attack to the top management of Hamas in Qatar. In a phone call with Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Merz described the violation of sovereignty and territorial integrity of Katar by the Israeli attack as “not acceptable”, as government spokesman Stefan Kornelius said.

At the same time, the Chancellor of Katar’s mediation effort was recognized by a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the Hamas Geiseln. The war should not expand to the entire region, says Merz. The federal government is also in close contact with the Israeli government.

Federal Foreign Minister Johann WadePhul (CDU) criticized Israel’s Israeli attack in Qatar as “unacceptable”. “The attack of Israel in Doha not only violates Katar’s territorial sovereignty, but also endangers all of our efforts to release the hostages,” said Wadephul on Tuesday evening in Berlin. “This blow is unacceptable.”

As Israeli media report on a high-ranking government representative, the Hamas leader Chalil al-Hajja was the goal of the attack. There was initially no confirmation of the death of Al-Haja or other Hamas officials. Al-Haja is the highest Hamas leader abroad, who also leads the Hamas delegation for an ceasefire in the indirect negotiations with Israel.

Steps were taken so as not to endanger uninvolved people, it said. The news channel Al Jasira, citing a Hamas insider, reported that the negotiation team of the radical Islamic organization was attacked. In Qatar, talks between Israel and Hamas run in the Gaza Strip to end the war.

Qatar condemns the Israeli attack as “cowardly”. The government is a blatant violation of international law, the government announced. An examination at the highest level is underway. Katar mediates together with Egypt and the USA in the Gaza War between Israel and Hamas. Negotiations for a ceasefire have not been making ahead for months. Meanwhile, Israel’s government intends to fully occupy the city of Gaza militarily.

Jordan also calls the Israeli attack a “cowardly aggression”. Foreign Minister Aiman ​​al-Safadi said on X that the attack is a blatant violation of international law. The attack was a continuation of the “brutal Israeli aggression”, which endangers the security and stability of the entire region. The emiratic presidential advisor Anwar Gargasch describes the attack an “insidious Israeli attack”. The United Arab countries are firmly on the side of their sister state.

UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres condemns the attack as a “blatant violation of sovereignty and territorial integrity” of the golf state. Qatar plays a very positive role in the efforts of an armistice in Gaza and the release of all hostages held by Hamas, says Guterres in front of journalists. “All parties have to work towards permanent ceasefire, not destroy it.”

Israel’s leadership justifies the blow as necessary.

“Today’s action against the highest terrorist leaders of Hamas was a completely independent Israeli operation. Israel initiated it, Israel has carried out it, and Israel assumes full responsibility for it,” says a declaration of the office of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

After a fatal attack in Jerusalem and an attack on soldiers in the Gaza Strip, he decided to “switch off the Hamas leadership”. According to media reports, Hamas stood behind both attacks. In the attack of two Hamas members in Jerusalem, six people were killed on Monday and numerous others were injured.

Minister of Finance Bezhalel Smotrich praised the attack: “There are no terrorists and will never be immunity in front of the long arm of Israel – at no place in the world,” wrote the ultra -right minister Smotrich in a post on the platform X. “A correct decision that we made, and a perfect execution through the army and the (domestic secret service).”

According to a report by the Israeli television broadcaster Channel, US President Donald Trump gave 12 green light for the attack.

Previously, Trump had pronounced a “last warning” to Hamas to force a diplomatic solution shortly before Israel’s further advance in the city of Gaza. Israel accepted his conditions that it was time that Hamas also accepted it, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. The Hamas was then ready for “immediate negotiations”. One greets “every step that contributes to ending aggression against our people”.

With the AL-NUDAID Air Force base, Qatar also home to the largest US military base in the Middle East. Here is the regional headquarters of the US Central Command, which coordinates missions in Syria or Iraq. By 2033, 15,000 soldiers and service staff are to be accommodated here.

Israel’s attack in Doha has been the first attack on the Gulf state of Qatar since its independence more than 50 years ago. The Emirate located on the Persian Gulf was a British protectorate from 1916 and became independent in 1971. In the same year, Qatar became a member of the Arab league and Member State at the United Nations.

Qatarian troops were involved in the second Gulf War in 1990/91 when Iraq attacked the neighboring Emirate Kuwait. However, Qatar was not attacked itself.

Qatar and most of the other golf states are generally considered very safe. In some cases, however, there were also terrorist attacks or in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates attacks by Huthi militia in Yemen on oil systems or civil goals.

This article is continuously updated.