Qatar’s prime minister denounced Israel on Sunday as overseas ministers from Arab and Muslim nations met to debate a doable unified response to Israel’s assault on Doha focusing on the management of the militant group Hamas.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who additionally serves as Qatar’s overseas minister, made the feedback forward of a gathering Monday of leaders from these nations.
Sheikh Mohammed stated Qatar remained dedicated to working with Egypt and the USA to achieve a ceasefire within the Israel-Hamas warfare that’s devastated the Gaza Strip after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel. Nevertheless, he confused the time had come for penalties to Israel’s assaults within the wider Center East amid the battle.
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“It’s time for the worldwide group to cease making use of double requirements and punish Israel for all of the crimes it has dedicated,” Sheikh Mohammed stated in footage later launched by Qatar’s authorities from the closed-door assembly.
There was no instant response from Israel, which is internet hosting U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio this weekend.
Nevertheless, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night time once more defended the strike.
“The Hamas terrorists chiefs dwelling in Qatar don’t care concerning the folks in Gaza,” he wrote on the social platform X. “They blocked all ceasefire makes an attempt to be able to endlessly drag out the warfare. Eliminating them would rid the principle impediment to releasing all our hostages and ending the warfare.”
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