Israel Draws Condemnation For Attacking Hamas Leaders In Qatar

DOHA/DUBAI, September 9 (Reuters) – Israel expanded the changing military actions in the Middle East to include the Gulf Arab state, which the Palestinian Islamist group has long for the Gulf Arab state for a long time.

Qatar, the key security partner of the United States, and the largest US military facility in the Middle East, hosted the Al-Oduid Air Base, and in the almost two-year-old war in Gaza, he served as a mediator with Egypt in negotiations with Egypt.

Train condemned The attack on Tuesday called “coward ve and called it an ugly violation of international law. The attack is likely to be seriously influenced by cease -fire efforts, especially since negotiations are held in Qatar.

Two Hamas sources told Reuters that the Hamas officials in the cease -fire negotiation team survived the attack, which watched a evacuation order in the city of Gaza, where Israel’s group in the Gaza Strip and his military talents.

Israeli officials told Reuters that the strike was aimed at the best Hamas leaders. Khalil Al-HayyaThe exiled Gaza chief and the best negotiator. Two Hamas sources told Reuters in the attack.

Israel is still gathering information about the strike and has not yet determined whether any HAMAS official or the leader has been killed.

A White House official in Washington said Israel informed the United States about the strike in advance. US President Donald Trump made a high -profile visit to Qatar in May and stayed at the hotel about 2 km from the attack area on Tuesday.

The air attack took place shortly after Hamas’s armed wing, al-Qassam brigades pull On Monday, he killed six people at a bus stop at the foot of Jerusalem.

The Israeli operation was withdrawn strongly reactions.

In 2020, in accordance with the Ibrahim agreements, the United Arab Emirates, which normalized relations with Israel, called Israel’s Doha attack “open and cowardly ..

Abu Dhabi was already angry with Israel’s plan to annex the land in the occupied West Bank, and it was a red line that cannot be passed.

Regional Power Saudi Arabia condemned the so -called “ruthless Israeli aggression karşı against Qatar’s sovereignty. Egypt said the attack constitutes a dangerous precedent.

Typically, Pope Leo, who refrained from talking from the headline, has unusually strong concern about the consequences of Israel’s strike in Qatar on Tuesday.

“The whole situation is very serious,” he said to journalists outside the summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.

The United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack and said that Qatar played a very positive role in searching for a cease -fire in Gaza and played a very positive role in the release of Hamas’s hostages.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attack was “completely right ve and was ordered after the Jerusalem attack on Monday and the loss of four Israeli soldiers in Gaza.

Later, he spoke on TV and said: “The days when terror leaders can enjoy all kinds of immunity is over … I will not allow such immunity to exist.”

Oil prices increased more than a barrel after the strike in Qatar.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army was published Evacuation Orders For the inhabitants of the Gaza city.

Since the Israeli government told Hamas that the group was the last castles of the group, the largest urban region of Gaza, which hosted one million Palestinians before the war, is waiting for an attack for weeks.

Anxiety was spreading from a tent area in Gaza City -displaced cancer patients.

While looking at the rubble of several buildings in an Israeli attack, Bajess Al-Khaldi, a displaced cancer patient, said, “There is nothing in the south, not in the north.

International critics say that Israel’s Gaza plan, which includes terrifying all the strip as it seizes Israel’s security check, can worsen the humanitarian situation of 2.2 million Palestinians living there.

The attack on the City of Gaza provoked concerns in Israel, where public support against war has changed. According to Israel officials, Israel’s military leadership warned Netanyahu against expanding the war.

The families of Israeli hostages are afraid that the attack can endanger prisoners. Netanyahu said that he was acting from Israel’s interest by acting to finish Hamas to protect his country against more attacks.

Israel killed a few best Hamas leaders for attacked Israel in October 2023, killing 1,200 people and attacked Israel in October 2023.

Israel also launched air strikes and other military actions in Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen during the Gaza conflict.

(He reports by Andrew Mills in Doha, Jan Choukeir in Dubai and Steven Scheer in Jerusalem and Maayan Lubell)