Arab-Islamic summit: Qatar’s emir vows to ‘confront Israeli aggression’

The emir accuses Israel of trying to ‘thwart negotiations’ for Gaza ceasefire, arsenic helium warns against Israeli expansionism.

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has warned against Israel’s expansionist imaginativeness of the Arab portion arsenic helium lambasted the state for past week’s deadly bombing of Doha, calling the battle “blatant, treacherous, and cowardly”.

“My country’s superior was subjected to a treacherous onslaught targeting a residence lodging the families of Hamas leaders and their negotiating delegation,” the Qatari emir said successful his opening code astatine the exigency acme of the Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

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“Our citizens were surprised, and the full satellite was shocked by the aggression and cowardly violent act,” helium said, referring to the planetary condemnation of the September 9 onslaught that killed six people.

“We are determined to bash immoderate is indispensable to sphere our sovereignty and face Israeli aggression.”

Doha, a adjacent US state that hosts the largest United States subject basal successful the region, has dubbed the unprecedented onslaught “state terrorism”. The onslaught targeted Hamas leaders gathered to sermon a US-backed Gaza ceasefire proposal. The Palestinian radical says its apical enactment survived the assassination attempt.

Sheikh Tamim said Israel’s actions showed it had nary genuine involvement successful peace, adding that Israel is attempting to “thwart the negotiations” aimed astatine ending Israel’s warfare successful Gaza, which has killed much than 64,800 Palestinians.

“Anyone who persistently and systematically targets a negotiating enactment is moving to thwart the negotiations,” helium said.

Sheikh Tamim accused Israel of waging what helium described arsenic a warfare aimed astatine destroying Gaza, which has been nether unrelenting Israeli bombardment for the past 23 months.

“The Israeli warfare connected Gaza has turned into a warfare of extermination,” helium said. “Israel wants to marque Gaza uninhabitable arsenic a prelude to displacing its population.”

Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Doha, said: “There’s been steadfast enactment astatine this acme for Qatar and condemnation of Israel implicit the attack, which members accidental undermines information and stableness successful the region.”

The Arab Peace Initiative

Qatar has been a cardinal mediator successful indirect negotiations betwixt Israel and Hamas since Israel launched its subject violative successful Gaza successful October 2023. Israeli actions successful Gaza person been dubbed genocide by galore rights organisations, including the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members, including Israel’s closest ally, the US, condemned the Israeli onslaught connected Doha connected Thursday.

Addressing the UNSC, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said that Doha would not tolerate further breaches of its information and sovereignty. “Israel is undermining the stableness of the portion impetuously,” helium said.

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to onslaught Hamas leaders again if Qatar does not expel the Palestinian leaders. During a gathering with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Netanyahu connected Monday repeated that Israel volition deed Hamas “wherever they are”.

The threats travel contempt US President Donald Trump assuring Sheikh Tamim past week that “such a happening volition not hap again connected their soil”. The Trump medication has said that the onslaught connected Doha did not “advance Israel’s oregon America’s goals”.

Rubio is acceptable to question to Qatar connected Tuesday, a elder US State Department authoritative says.

The Qatari emir said that Netanyahu is dreaming of making the Arab portion “an Israeli sphere of influence”, and said that believing “the Arab portion volition go an Israeli portion of power is simply a unsafe illusion”.

He went connected to enactment that Israel’s rejection of the Arab Peace Initiative had contributed to repeated cycles of unit successful the region.

First endorsed by the Arab League successful 2002, and reaffirmed successful 2007 and 2017, the inaugural offered Israel afloat normalisation of relations with Arab states successful instrumentality for a implicit withdrawal from territories occupied, including the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, and confederate Lebanon.

Israel’s then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected the program arsenic a “non-starter”, and successive Israeli governments, including Netanyahu’s, person dismissed the proposals.

“If Israel had accepted the Arab Peace Initiative, it would person spared the full portion countless tragedies,” Sheikh Tamim said.