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Trump was not enthusiastic about Israel’s attack in Qatar
Israel attacks the Hamas tip in Doha, six people are killed. The United States and Qatar condemn the procedure and warn of episodes for negotiations on a Gaza custody rest.
The United States has clearly criticized a surprise attack on the leadership of the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas in Qatar. “I am not enthusiastic about it,” said US President Donald Trump in Washington. The White House had previously announced that Trump regretted that the Gulf state had become the place of an Israeli attack on Hamas. The Republican sees Qatar as a narrow ally and friend of the United States. Meanwhile, the United Nations Security Council wants to deal with the attack today (9:00 p.m. CEST) in an urgency meeting.
Hamas: Israel’s attack on negotiation team in Qatar failed
Hamas described the attack in the Qatarian capital Doha as “failed”. No member of her negotiation team was killed, it said in a message from the Palestinian organization. However, six people died in the attack. Among them are the son of the high-ranking Hamas leader abroad, Chalil al-Haja, and his office manager.
Al-Haja is the highest Hamas leader abroad, who also leads the Hamas delegation for an ceasefire in the indirect negotiations with Israel. Al-Haja stayed in Qatar most of the time. Other higher Hamas officials abroad also mostly live in Qatar or in Turkey. Israel had recently threatened to attack Hamas leader abroad.
Netanyahu: Attack on Hamas tip “optimal and precise”
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the air raid, in which, according to media reports, several fighter jets and drones were involved, “optimal and precise”. It was a reaction to the fatal attack of two Hamas members in Jerusalem, in which six people were killed on Monday, and a fatal Hamas attack on soldiers in the Gaza Strip.
“The days when terrorist leaders enjoyed immunity in any place in the world are over,” said Netanyahu. Israel’s enemies would have to know that Jews have no longer been delivered without defenseless since the state of Israel. The Israeli army broadcaster reported that the attack with the code name “Feuer summit” had taken the remaining leadership of the Islamist organization.
Qatar: Was not informed about Israel’s attack in advance
The spokesman for the Qatarian Foreign Ministry, Madschid al-Ansari, called reports that Qatar was informed before the attack, “completely wrong”. A US government agent called Katar at the moment when the explosions had already been heard. Al-Ansari thus contradicted a first US presentation. The US government spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Trump instructed his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff to inform Qatar about the upcoming attack.
The US President later added to Truth Social in a post on his platform that Witkoff had informed Katar. But it was too late to stop the attack. When asked how he found out about the attack, the Republican said on Tuesday evening (local time) that he would make a complete explanation this Wednesday. “But I tell you the following: I was very unhappy about it. Very unhappy about every aspect.”
The Qatarian spokesman Al-Ansari said that the attack was a “blatant violation of all international rights and norms” and a “serious danger to the security” of the population in Qatar. For the time being, his country exposed his role as an intermediary between the two parties to the conflict, Israel and Hamas, in the Gaza War.
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.
According to Qatar, the attack aimed at a house of Hamas representatives. According to the information, there are also several schools, kindergartens, a petrol station, a park and the messages of Poland, Russia and the Philippines.
USA: bombing serves neither Israel nor America’s destinations
In the statement that US spokeswoman Leavitt performed, it was said that a “one-sided bombing within Qatar as a sovereign state and close allies of the United States” served neither Israel’s nor America’s goals. 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.
There are still 48 hostages in the Gaza Strip, 20 of which are still alive according to Israeli information. Relatives also expressed great concern about the fate of hostages after the attack in Qatar.
Hamas announced that the attack on her negotiating delegation, which was about to advise Trump’s proposal for a mediation, once again prove that Netanyahu and his government do not intend to achieve an agreement.
Merz calls Israeli attack “not acceptable”
Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) called the violation of sovereignty and territorial integrity in Katar in a phone call with Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani “not acceptable”, as government spokesman Stefan Kornelius said. Foreign Minister Johann WadePhul also condemned the attack. The British Prime Minister Keir Strander described Israel’s approach as a “blatant violation of the sovereignty of Katar” and warned of a further escalation of the situation.
Provocative statements by the Hamas leaders
Al-Haja described the agreement on a ceasefire as a triumph about Israel at the beginning of the year. The ceasefire, which came into force in January, collapsed after two months. Israel had refused to negotiate the end of the war in the course of a next phase of the ceasefire, as it was originally agreed. Israel’s goal is to continue to smash Hamas.
The massacres of Israelis of October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people had been killed and more than 250 more, had described Al-Haja as the turning point in the history of the Palestinian cause. Israel was hit to the mark. The aim of Hamas is to snatch the city of Jerusalem and the Al-Aksa mosque, said Al-Haja.
After the riots of the Arab uprisings in the region, Hamas opened a political office in Qatar in 2012. A lot of money had already flowed from the Gulfemirate to Hamas, who had violently torn power in the Gaza Strip in 2007. After Hamas’s terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel, demands to the government of Katar Lauter became the office.
Israel’s army calls for residents of the city of Gaza to flee
Israel’s government intends to fully take the city of Gaza militarily. The army called on the residents on Tuesday. People should go to the south to Al-Mawasi, it said in a call published in Arabic. The military continued to share Israel’s army in the city of Gaza “with great intensity” to defeat Hamas. It is the army’s first escape.
dpa
Source: Stern
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