‘Gulf region at risk’: Qatar seeks ‘collective response’ to Israeli attack

Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has said that determination indispensable beryllium a “collective response” to Israel’s onslaught connected the Qatari superior Doha, arsenic Arab leaders rushed to the tiny Gulf federation to explicit solidarity.

“There is simply a effect that volition hap from the region. This effect is presently nether consultation and treatment with different partners successful the region,” helium told US media outlet CNN connected Wednesday, adding that “the full Gulf portion is astatine risk”.

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“We are hoping for thing meaningful that deters Israel from continuing this bullying,” Sheikh Mohammed added, accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of starring the portion into “chaos”.

“We recognize immoderate benignant of determination gathering volition beryllium held present successful Qatar. We cognize that the countries person pulled unneurotic their ain ineligible team. They are looking astatine each ineligible avenues to person Netanyahu tried for breaking planetary law,” Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford said.

“So yeah, the unit is decidedly mounting connected Israel, not lone from Qatar, but evidently connected a determination and a wider planetary level. And that’s what I deliberation he’s evidently trying to bash successful giving these precise forceful statements to the US network, CNN.”

Smoke rises from an detonation caused by an Israeli onslaught successful Doha connected September 9, 2025 [UGC via AP Photo]

The Israeli subject targeted Hamas leaders successful Doha connected Tuesday arsenic they were gathering to sermon the latest Gaza ceasefire connection enactment distant by US President Donald Trump. At slightest 7 radical were killed successful the attack, but Hamas said its enactment survived the assassination bid. Qatar says 2 of its information officers were killed successful the onslaught that has drawn planetary condemnation.

On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned Israel’s onslaught successful a telephone telephone with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. “These strikes are unacceptable. I condemn them. I reaffirmed France’s committedness to the sovereignty and information of Qatar,” helium posted connected X.

The onslaught was portion of a wider question of Israeli strikes extending beyond its contiguous borders, and marked the sixth state attacked successful conscionable 72 hours and the seventh since the commencement of this year. On Wednesday, Israel killed 35 radical successful an onslaught connected Yemen.

The person of Lebanon’s Hezbollah radical said connected Wednesday that Israel’s onslaught connected Qatar is simply a warning to oil-rich Gulf countries that they would not beryllium spared successful the aboriginal if equipped groups successful the portion are defeated.

“We are connected the broadside of Qatar that was subjected to an aggression and we besides basal with the Palestinian resistance,” Naim Kassem said. He added that the Israeli onslaught is portion of its attempts to make a “Greater Israel” successful ample parts of the Middle East.

The “Greater Israel” conception supported by ultranationalist Israelis is understood to notation to an expansionist imaginativeness that lays assertion to the occupied West Bank, Gaza, parts of Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Jordan.

Israel has been accused of committing genocide successful Gaza by galore rights groups, but that has not stopped it from its brutal run of bombardment. On Wednesday, Israeli attacks crossed Gaza killed astatine slightest 72 people, taking the full fig of Palestinians killed since October 2023 to much than 64,656. Israel has intensified its battle to seizure Gaza City – location to much than 1 cardinal Palestinians.

Sheikh Mohammed, the Qatari premier minister, besides said that the Israeli onslaught was aimed astatine undermining “any accidental of peace” successful Gaza.

“Everything astir the gathering is precise good known to the Israelis and the Americans. It’s not thing that we are hiding,” helium said of the beingness of Hamas officials successful Qatar.

“I deliberation that what [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu did yesterday – helium conscionable killed immoderate anticipation for those [Israeli] hostages,” Sheikh Mohammed said astir the 20 captives believed to beryllium inactive live successful Gaza.

Netanyahu appears unfazed

However, Netanyahu appears unfazed by the disapproval from planetary leaders, including the UN secretary-general.

On Wednesday, the Israeli premier curate threatened further attacks connected Qatar. “I accidental to Qatar and each nations who harbour terrorists, you either expel them oregon you bring them to justice. Because if you don’t, we will,” Netanyahu said.

Qatar has condemned Netanyahu’s “reckless” comments regarding Qatar’s hosting of the Hamas office. “Netanyahu is afloat alert that the hosting of the Hamas bureau took spot wrong the model of Qatar’s mediation efforts requested by the United States and Israel,” the overseas ministry said successful a connection connected Wednesday.

It besides called retired “the shameful effort therein to warrant the cowardly onslaught that targeted Qatari territory, arsenic good arsenic the explicit threats of aboriginal violations of authorities sovereignty”.

Netanyahu’s threats came contempt the US President Donald Trump connected Tuesday saying nary further attacks would hap connected Qatari soil.

The onslaught connected Tuesday was the archetypal specified onslaught by Israel connected Qatar, which has been a cardinal mediator successful ceasefire talks betwixt Israel and Hamas and hosts the region’s largest United States subject base, Al Udeid airbase, which hosts US troops.

The Qatari premier minister, who is besides the overseas curate of the Gulf nation, has dubbed Israel’s targeting of Hamas leaders successful Doha connected Tuesday “state terrorism”.

“I person nary words to explicit however enraged we are from specified an enactment … we are betrayed,” helium said successful the interrogation with the cablegram network.

Netanyahu “needs to beryllium brought to justice. He’s the 1 who’s wanted astatine the International Criminal Court. He broke each planetary law,” Sheikh Mohammed said, referring to the apprehension warrant against the Israeli premier curate for warfare crimes.

A damaged building, pursuing an Israeli onslaught connected Hamas leaders, according to an Israeli official, successful Doha, Qatar, September 9, 2025 [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

Arab states explicit solidarity with Qatar

Meanwhile, Gulf leaders person visited Doha to rally astir Qatar, with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan calling the Israeli enactment “criminal” and a menace to determination stability.

In a gathering connected Wednesday with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani successful Doha, Sheikh Al Nahyan reaffirmed his country’s “resolute solidarity with Qatar and its steadfast enactment for each measures taken to safeguard its sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the information of its people”, according to the UAE authorities media outlet WAM.

“He [Sheikh Al Nahyan] stressed that the transgression onslaught constituted a usurpation of Qatar’s sovereignty and of each planetary laws and norms, informing that specified actions endanger the region’s security, stability, and prospects for peace,” WAM added.

The crown princes of Kuwait and Jordan besides travelled to Doha connected Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, besides known arsenic MBS, volition get successful Doha connected Thursday.

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates, is received by Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, emir of Qatar, arsenic helium arrives astatine Doha International Airport, successful Doha, Qatar [Abdulla Al Bedwawi/Handout via Reuters]

“We volition basal with the State of Qatar successful each measures it takes, without limits, and we volition harness each our capabilities for that,” Prince Mohammed said successful an code to the Shura Council connected Wednesday.

“We cull and condemn the attacks of the Israeli concern successful the region, the latest of which was the brutal aggression against the State of Qatar,” the crown prince added.

“This requires Arab, Islamic, and planetary enactment to face this aggression and to instrumentality planetary measures to halt the concern authorization and deter it from its transgression practices aimed astatine destabilising the region’s information and stability.”

In a little interrogation with reporters connected Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said helium was “not thrilled” astir Israel’s strike.

“This was a determination made by [Israeli] Prime Minister Netanyahu, it was not a determination made by me,” Trump wrote connected his Truth Social platform.

Still, it remains unclear whether the Trump medication had been caught disconnected guard, whether the US had indicated adjacent tacit support for specified a strike, oregon if the onslaught could correspond a rupture successful Washington’s “ironclad” enactment for Israel.

Independent Middle East Analyst Adam Shapiro said if the US was not made alert of the attack, it was not “something new”.

“I deliberation this is conscionable simply the mode Israel continually acts arsenic the process wagging the US dog, doing what it wishes, erstwhile it wishes, and getting what it wants, according to a treble standard,” helium told Al Jazeera.