Israel Strikes Hamas Leadership As Explosions Hit Qatar’s Capital

The Israeli military, connected Tuesday said, it had carried retired a “precise strike” targeting elder Hamas leaders, soon aft explosions were reported successful Doha, the Qatari superior city, wherever the group’s governmental bureau is based.

“The IDF (Israeli military) and ISA (security agency) conducted a precise onslaught targeting the elder enactment of the Hamas violent organisation,” the subject announced, without confirming the nonstop determination of the strike.

AFP correspondents successful Doha reported blasts hitting a Hamas compound successful the city.

According to Israel, the targeted leaders “for years … person led the violent organisation’s operations, are straight liable for the brutal October 7 (2023) massacre, and person been orchestrating and managing the warfare against the State of Israel.”

The onslaught comes little than 2 weeks aft Israel’s equipped forces chief, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, vowed to prosecute Hamas leaders based abroad. “Most of Hamas’s enactment is abroad, and we volition scope them arsenic well,” helium declared connected August 31.

Reacting to the attack, Israel’s Culture Minister Miki Zohar wrote connected X (formerly Twitter): “May each your enemies perish, Israel.”

The improvement threatens to further complicate ongoing ceasefire negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and the United States. Despite 2 impermanent truces during the astir two-year warfare successful Gaza, efforts to unafraid a lasting bid person repeatedly collapsed.

Hamas, however, signaled caller willingness connected Sunday to resume talks, saying it was acceptable to “immediately beryllium astatine the negotiating table” pursuing what it described arsenic “some ideas from the American broadside aimed astatine reaching a ceasefire agreement.”

US President Donald Trump besides connected Sunday issued a stern connection to the group, saying helium was delivering a “last warning” and insisting that Hamas indispensable judge a woody to merchandise the hostages taken during the October 2023 battle that ignited the war.