When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered this week’s attempted assassination of Hamas leaders in Qatar, he took a major gamble in his campaign to pound the group into submission.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that getting rid of Hamas chiefs living in Qatar would remove the main obstacle to releasing all hostages and ending the war in Gaza.

Israel targeted residential compound housing Hamas leaders in Doha, killing 5 Hamas members, Qatari security officer - Anadolu Ajansı

Qatar hit back at Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a strongly worded statement early on Thursday, describing his remarks about the Gulf country’s hosting of a Hamas office as “reckless”.

Qatar's prime minister pressed Hamas leaders to "respond positively" to the latest US-proposed plan during talks in Doha on Monday, an official briefed on the talks told Reuters. Hamas on Monday addressed the new US-backed hostage-ceasefire proposal conveyed through Israeli negotiator Gershon Baskin and Dr.

Doha also has spent the last decade paying dozens of lobbyists (including Trump appointees like Attorney General PAM BONDI ), buying stakes in the capital’s sports teams and investing directly in Newsmax.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Qatar's prime minister Friday ahead of a visit to Israel this weekend, showing how the Trump administration is trying to balance relations between key Middle East allies days after Israel targeted Hamas leaders in a strike on Doha.

Qatari FM spokesman Majed al-Ansari questioned: "What does Israeli military supremacy mean for all of us when Israel can basically, at will, without consulting the US, bomb capitals in the region?" TheQatari Foreign Ministry spokesman,