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Key Points
- Qatar PM says there will be a response after five Hamas members and a Qatari security official were killed.
- Gulf leaders showed solidarity with Qatar as summit plans take shape.
- Benjamin Netanyahu vowed more action and warned nations hosting Hamas negotiators.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the strike and threatened further action against Qatar a day after US President Donald Trump had sought to ease tensions between the allies, including by assuring the Gulf country that there would be no more such strikes on its soil.
“Because if you don’t, we will.”
How and why did Israel strike Qatar?
Israeli ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter said after the operation that if the airstrike failed to kill Hamas leaders, it would succeed next time.
It said its top leaders survived.
Attack draws global condemnation
The visits were a show of regional solidarity with Qatar following the Israeli strikes, the official said.
Qatar has vowed to respond to the Israeli attack on Doha along with its regional partners. Source: AAP / AP
The European Commission will propose sanctioning ultranationalist Israeli ministers and the suspension of trade-related measures in a European Union agreement with Israel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
Residents there expressed alarm that the Doha strike might destroy chances for a ceasefire.
