Missiles from space, fighter jets from Red Sea: Inside Israel’s strike on Doha

On September 9, 2025, Israel launched a surprise attack on Qatar Doha in an operation aimed at killing senior Hamas leaders. Now the details of the attack are absorbed and shed light on how the strike is carried out.

According to senior US officials Wall Street JournalThe attack was released by an air operation with a f-15 and F-35 fighter aircraft from the Red Sea, the Red Sea. In the report, he revealed that the missiles were fired into space first, and then turned to the Qatar capital. US space -based infrared sensors detected launch and confirmed their orbits towards Doha. Analysts said that this approach allowed Israel to jump the Saudi airspace without officially violating it.

The Israeli Air Force reportedly used eight F-15 and four F-35 to the Red Sea to perform the task. Most importantly, no Israeli plane has entered the airspace of neighboring Arab countries and minimized the risk of a regional conflict.
The operation caught Washington unprepared. US officials were informed just a few minutes before the strike, and early intelligence at the target was uncertain. White House officials, President Donald Trump’s administration made very little notification about the plan, he said.

The inhabitants of Doha told them that they had heard loud explosions in the Qatara area and that they saw their smoke feathers. Reuters confirmed that there were several explosions throughout the city and caused panic among the locals.

In an official statement, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stressed that the strike is directed towards Hamas leaders and that sensitive guided ammunitions were used to reduce civil damage. Qatar Foreign Ministry called an unprecedented attack and said it was a dangerous climb. Prime Minister Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, a summit in Doha with a summit expected to determine a response with regional partners continued to discuss. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the strike, saying that the elimination of Hamas’s high -level leadership is necessary to cleanse the ceasefire path. The targeted authorities will be gathered in Doha to discuss a US -backed ceasefire offer.

In the meantime, Israel accelerated military operations in Gaza, published evacuation orders for the city of Gaza, and destroyed several high buildings allegedly used by Hamas. The United Nations warned of famine conditions, which estimated that about one million civilians were stuck in the region under severe human coercion.