Qatar’s emir visits Jordan to set military cooperation after Israel attack

The sojourn is Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani’s archetypal since Israel’s onslaught connected Doha past week.

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is visiting Amman for talks with Jordan’s king, days aft hosting Arab and Islamic leaders at an exigency summit that condemned Israel’s caller onslaught connected Doha.

The Qatari person landed connected Wednesday successful Jordan’s capital, wherever helium volition beryllium received by King Abdullah II, Crown Prince Hussein Abdullah and elder Jordanian officials.

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The sojourn is the emir’s archetypal since the Israeli subject struck a residential country successful Doha connected September 9, sidesplitting six radical successful what the emir called a “blatant, treacherous and cowardly” onslaught against Hamas leaders successful the Qatari capital.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) pledged astatine Monday’s summit to “activate a associated defence mechanism”, the astir actionable effect of the meeting.

Reporting from Amman, Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid stressed the value of Tamim’s trip, which comes a time aft United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio met the emir successful Doha successful an effort to repair US-Qatari relations successful the aftermath of the Israeli strike.

“We are expecting that this is going to beryllium an important bilateral sojourn due to the fact that it’s the archetypal 1 that comes aft that onslaught by Israel connected Doha connected Hamas targets,” Bin Javaid said.

As good arsenic the Israeli onslaught connected Doha, Bin Javaid emphasised that different cardinal constituent for treatment would beryllium Israel’s genocidal warfare successful Gaza.

Bin Javaid noted that the emir’s travel to Jordan, which is simply a important state for the transportation of assistance to Palestinians, was symbolic.

“The symbolism is determination due to the fact that Qatar wants to amusement the satellite that it stands with the Palestinian radical and that it volition proceed its diplomatic posture wrong the portion and beyond,” helium said.

The emir and king volition clasp meetings successful which subject practice volition apt beryllium a absorption and are expected to coordinate connected Israel’s strikes successful Doha earlier the United Nations General Assembly meetings adjacent week.

They are besides owed to speech astir improving their relations and astir supporting stableness successful Syria.