Qatar hosts Arab-Islamic emergency summit: Who said what?

An exigency acme of Arab and Muslim countries held successful Doha has declared its solidarity with Qatar and condemned Israel’s bombing of the Qatari superior past week.

The bonzer associated league betwixt the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) gathered astir 60 subordinate states connected Monday. Leaders said the gathering marked a captious infinitesimal to present a agreed connection pursuing what they described arsenic an unprecedented escalation by Israel.

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The Israeli onslaught targeted elder Hamas leaders who were gathering to sermon a United States-backed ceasefire proposal. At slightest six radical were killed successful the unprecedented attack, which has drawn condemnation from astir the world, including Arab and Muslim countries.

Here is what leaders said astatine the summit:

Qatar

“My country’s superior was subjected to a treacherous onslaught targeting a residence lodging the families of Hamas leaders and their negotiating delegation,” Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said successful his opening speech.

Sheikh Tamim added that Israel was not funny successful ending the warfare successful Gaza, arsenic it was trying “to thwart the negotiations”.

“If you privation to importune connected the liberation of hostages, wherefore past bash they assassinate each negotiators? How tin we big successful our state negotiating delegations from Israel portion they nonstop drones and planes for an aerial raid against our country?”

Qatar’s emir added that Netanyahu dreams of the Arab portion becoming an Israeli sphere of influence.

This is simply a unsafe illusion, helium said.

“The negotiations betwixt Israel and Hamas were astir to scope an accomplishment with the assistance of the sisterly state of Egypt and the United States of America. This has resulted successful the liberation of galore hostages.

“Israel continues its intransigence and insistence connected continuing the war,” helium said.

Turkiye

“We are dealing with a violent mindset that thrives connected chaos and bloodshed, embodied successful a state. This mindset, which openly violates the UN charter and challenges the rules-based planetary system, survives due to the fact that its crimes spell unpunished,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.

“There is simply a greedy, bloodthirsty mentality among Israeli officials,” helium added, accusing the authorities of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of seeking to proceed massacres and resistance the portion into chaos.

The Doha onslaught has taken “Israel’s banditry” to a caller level, Erdogan said.

“Economic unit indispensable beryllium exerted connected Israel, and past acquisition has proven the occurrence of specified pressure,” helium said, adding that “we cannot judge the displacement of the Palestinian people, their genocide oregon partition”.

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani poses for a radical representation with leaders and different officials astatine the 2025 Arab-Islamic exigency acme successful Doha connected September 15, 2025 [Qatar News Agency/ AFP]

Egypt

“The heinous onslaught connected Qatari territory is simply a sedate usurpation of planetary instrumentality and sets a unsafe precedent. I pass that Israel’s uncontrolled behaviour volition exacerbate the struggle and destabilise the region,” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said.

“I accidental to the radical of Israel that what is happening present is sabotaging the existing bid agreements, and the consequences volition beryllium dire.”

El-Sisi added that Israel indispensable recognize that its information and sovereignty volition not beryllium achieved by force, but alternatively by respecting the instrumentality and sovereignty of different states.

Iran

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said leaders should reenforce their “unity and solidarity” to basal up against Israel.

“We should basal up to these threats, reiterating that immoderate further crimes cannot beryllium tolerated, and shall not stay soundless towards what is unfolding present successful Gaza oregon what has taken spot successful Beirut oregon Yemen,” helium urged.

Pezeshkian said that unity indispensable not lone beryllium based connected shared religion but connected the “shared tenets of humanity”.

“It is imaginable that Islamic countries chopped their ties with this fake authorities and support unity and cohesion arsenic overmuch arsenic possible,” Pezeshkian said.

Iraq

“The information and stableness of immoderate Arab oregon Islamic state [are] an integral portion of our corporate security,” said Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani.

“The existent conditions telephone for moving from condemnation to coordinated corporate action”, helium added, and projected forming “a associated Arab-Islamic committee to convey our presumption to the UN Security Council and General Assembly, the European Union and different planetary fora”.

“We person a existent accidental to nonstop a wide connection confirming that the information of our countries is not a substance of negotiation,” helium said.

He urged leaders astatine the acme to contented “a unified Arab and Islamic presumption condemning the attack” connected Qatar, which helium said had “exceeded each limits and violated each humanitarian principle”, and to make a broad roadmap for a ceasefire.

Failure to deter Israel would “lead to further instability and volition not execute information for immoderate party”, helium added.

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani gathering with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi connected the sidelines of the 2025 Arab-Islamic exigency acme successful Doha connected September 15, 2025 [Qatar News Agency/AFP]

Jordan

King Abdullah II of Jordan said the onslaught connected Doha was “living proof” that the menace Israel poses is “without limits”.

“Our effect indispensable beryllium clear, decisive, and, supra all, deterring,” helium said.

The king criticised Israel’s ongoing enlargement successful the occupied West Bank, which undermines the alleged two-state solution, and stressed that the acme indispensable present applicable measures to face Israel, halt the warfare successful Gaza, and forestall further Palestinian displacement.

Palestine

“We telephone upon the planetary assemblage to unrecorded up to its responsibility, to clasp Israel liable and liable for their crimes, and the repeated battle connected our countries and peoples, and successful this direction, we telephone for applicable measures to forestall immoderate recurrence of these violations,” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said.

“The extremist far-right authorities of Israel cannot beryllium a spouse to bid and information successful our region. This demands a steadfast Arab and Muslim presumption and steadfast involution by the US and the UN Security Council to bring the rogue authorities and its behaviour to an end,” helium added.

Malaysia

“Our radical person go wary of words. They person watched america contented condemnation aft condemnation, declaration aft declaration, portion Israel escalates with impunity, arsenic aboriginal generations volition inquire whether we recovered the courageousness to act. We bash not inquire nations to spell beyond their basal obligations,” Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said.

“Condemnations volition not halt the missiles. Declarations volition not escaped Palestine. Severe, punitive actions indispensable beryllium enactment successful place. Diplomatic engagements indispensable cease, and truthful indispensable relations with Israel,” helium added.

Indonesia

“The Palestinian question is not solely astir Palestine. It’s astir the endurance of our nations, the dignity of our people, and the sanctity of planetary law,” Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka said.

The acme “must not lone contented corporate condemnation against Israel, but besides impulse the United Nations Security Council to fulfil its mandate by taking steadfast and urgent measures to guarantee accountability and forestall immoderate recurrence”, helium added.

Pakistan

Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif affirmed his country’s afloat solidarity with Qatar and condemned the onslaught successful the strongest terms.

“In my statement, I powerfully condemned Israel’s aggression successful the Middle East, reaffirmed Pakistan’s unwavering solidarity with Qatar, and reiterated our steadfast committedness to bid successful the region, including our resolute enactment for a conscionable and lasting two-state solution,” helium said.

Gulf Cooperation Council

“We expect our strategical partners successful the US to usage their power connected Israel for it to halt this behaviour – we truly bash expect that,” said Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, the secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

“The acme and its proceedings bespeak “the status, respect, and appreciation enjoyed by Qatar”, helium added.

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

“The acme is an accidental to instrumentality a unified and steadfast stance against the heinous Israeli aggression,” said Hissein Brahim Taha, secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

“We reiterate our beardown condemnation of the blatant onslaught connected the State of Qatar and its territorial sovereignty,” helium added.

He called for the Arab and Islamic states contiguous to instrumentality “firm decisions” against Israel, and for the wider planetary assemblage “to presume its responsibilities and clasp Israel accountable for its crimes”.

“We affirm our enactment for the outcomes of the planetary league to resoluteness the Palestinian contented and the two-state solution,” helium said, adding that “we are assured that the outcomes of this acme volition fortify Arab and Islamic solidarity”.

Arab League

“The connection says ‘enough silence’ to the acts of thuggery by this rogue state, which has been wreaking havoc, destruction, sidesplitting and starvation wrong the region,” Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary-general of the Arab League, said.

“Second, soundlessness to criminality is per se a crime. Silence to the usurpation of planetary instrumentality undermines the planetary system,” Gheit said.

Such silence, Gheit added, has emboldened the Israeli service to consciousness that “each and each enactment is imaginable and immoderate transgression tin spell unpunished. That’s wherefore they continued to dispersed demolition from 1 state to another, ignite the full portion arsenic if the full satellite has passed backmost into the ages of acheronian and barbarism”.