New Trump executive order guarantees Qatar security after Israeli attack

President Donald Trump has issued an enforcement bid successful which the United States pledges to warrant Qatar’s security, including retaliatory subject action, if the state were to travel nether onslaught again, successful the aftermath of Israel’s unprecedented onslaught connected the state past period that drew determination and planetary outrage.

Israel said that onslaught targeted the Hamas leadership, who were successful the superior Doha discussing a US ceasefire connection for Gaza nether Qatari auspices. It killed respective members of the Palestinian group’s team, but not the leaders, arsenic good arsenic a Qatari information officer.

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu apologised to Qatar for the sidesplitting of its citizen. Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani received the apology connected Monday successful a associated telephone from Trump and Netanyahu during their gathering astatine the White House.

In his latest enforcement order, Trump said the US and Qatar had been “bound unneurotic by adjacent cooperation, shared interests, and the adjacent narration betwixt our equipped forces”.

The US president added that Qatar was “a steadfast state successful pursuit of peace, stability, and prosperity” and had supported Washington successful mediating determination and planetary conflicts.

“In designation of this history, and successful airy of the continuing threats to the State of Qatar posed by overseas aggression, it is the argumentation of the United States to warrant the information and territorial integrity of the State of Qatar against outer attack,” helium said.

Following the Israeli strikes successful Doha connected 9 September, Washington tried to repair the harm done to diplomatic relations with Qatar, portion besides showing its continued ironclad enactment for its state Israel. The Gulf federation had called Israel’s actions “cowardly and treacherous”.

US Secretary of State Marco landed successful Qatar connected 16 September for talks, a week aft the onslaught and 1 time aft Arab and Islamic leaders had expressed solidarity with Qatar during an exigency acme successful Doha.

In a station connected X astatine the time, Rubio said helium met with the Qatari officials and “reaffirmed the enduring US-Qatar information concern and our shared committedness to a safer, much unchangeable region”.

Speaking aft the talks, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Majed al-Ansari, said his state was “determined to support our sovereignty and instrumentality measures to forestall immoderate recurrence of immoderate attack”.

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