Qatar Says Israel’s Strikes ‘Killed Any Hope’ for Release of Israeli Captives in Gaza
Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani has said that Israel’s airstrikes on Doha that targeted Hamas officials “killed any hope” for the release of Israeli captives in Gaza.
Throughout Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, al-Thani has served as a mediator between Israel and Hamas and said that he had just met with family members of an Israeli who is still being held in Gaza. “I was meeting one of the hostage’s families the morning of the attack,” al-Thani said on Wednesday,” according to NBC News.
“They are counting on this mediation, they have no other hope for that. I think that what Netanyahu has done yesterday, he just killed any hope for those hostages,” al-Thani added.
On Thursday, al-Thani addressed an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council and made similar comments. “Extremists that rule Israel today do not care about the hostages — otherwise, how do we justify the timing of this attack?” he said.
