Qatar PM meeting Trump after Israel’s deadly strike on Doha

Prior to talks with Trump, Sheikh Mohammed met US Secretary of State Rubio, who is heading to Israel to pledge continued support.

Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani is gathering United States President Donald Trump successful New York successful the aftermath of Israel’s deadly onslaught connected Doha this week.

Sheikh Mohammed, who is besides the country’s overseas minister, has been engaged successful a flurry of diplomatic enactment successful the US since Israel’s onslaught connected a Hamas gathering successful Doha connected Tuesday, which killed a Qatari information authoritative and 5 Hamas members who were discussing a caller woody projected by Trump to extremity the Gaza war.

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Ahead of Friday’s meal gathering with the US president, Sheikh Mohammed met US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio astatine the White House, wherever they discussed Israel’s strikes and the US-Qatar information arrangement, according to Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett.

Washington counts Qatar, which hosts its Al Udeid airbase successful the godforsaken extracurricular Doha, arsenic a beardown Gulf ally.

Trump has already said helium was “very unhappy” astir Israel’s targeting of Qatar, which appeared designed to derail ongoing Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks.

“The interest is that the narration betwixt Qatar and the United States has go progressively analyzable arsenic a effect of those strikes, truthful they’re looking for a way guardant connected some of those issues,” said Al Jazeera’s Halkett, reporting from Washington, DC.

Halkett said Friday’s scheduled gathering with Trump would “continue the conversations regarding Israel’s onslaught connected Doha earlier this week and the negotiations to extremity Israel’s warfare connected Gaza”.

The determination and clip of the meal stay unclear, but Trump is presently successful New York and is staying astatine his eponymous Manhattan tower.

Balancing act

This week has besides seen the Trump medication engaged successful a balancing enactment betwixt Middle East allies and Israel.

The contented was brought to the fore connected Thursday, erstwhile the US – which traditionally shields Israel connected the planetary signifier – joined chap members of the United Nations Security Council successful condemning the state for its onslaught connected Qatar.

But successful what appears to beryllium a amusement of continued enactment for Israel, Rubio volition get successful Israel this play for a two-day sojourn earlier attending an upcoming UN acme connected September 22, wherever a fig of Western countries program to recognise a Palestinian state.

That gathering signals increasing planetary momentum towards a viable post-conflict colony for Israel and Palestine, which was manifest astatine Friday’s gathering of the UN General Assembly, which endorsed a solution pushing for a revival of the two-state solution.

France and Saudi Arabia person been instrumental successful pushing for “collective enactment to extremity the warfare successful Gaza, to execute a just, peaceful and lasting colony of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”, which has truthful acold killed astatine slightest 64,756 people.

During his sojourn to Israel, Rubio volition talk to leaders astir “our committedness to combat anti-Israel actions, including unilateral designation of a Palestinian authorities that rewards Hamas terrorism”, State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said successful a statement.

“He volition besides emphasise our shared goals: ensuring Hamas ne'er rules implicit Gaza again and bringing each the hostages home,” Pigott added.

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