Qatar to hold emergency Arab-Islamic summit after IDF strike

Qatari officials have remained tight-lipped about the fate of the Hamas leadership, which convened in Doha to discuss the latest Washington offer to reach a ceasefire in Gaza.

By JNS

Qatar will host an emergency Arab-Islamic summit in Doha on Sept. 14-15 in the wake of Israel’s attack that targeted Hamas’s leadership in the city, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing the Qatar News Agency.

“There is a response that will happen from the region. This response is currently under consultation and discussion with other partners in the region,” Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said in an interview with CNN’s Becky Anderson on Wednesday.

The participants will decide on a course of action, he said.

“We are hoping for something meaningful that deters Israel from continuing this bullying,” Mohammed added.

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan flew to Doha on Wednesday to express his country’s solidarity, the BBC reported.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is expected to arrive in Doha on Thursday. The BBC cited him as saying that Israel’s “brutal aggression” required a response.

Qatari officials have remained tight-lipped about the fate of the Hamas leadership, which convened in Doha to discuss the latest Washington offer to reach a ceasefire in Gaza.

Qatar’s interior ministry identified the bodies of three of the five lower-level Hamas members, all confirmed dead by Hamas, along with that of a Qatari security officer, who were present at the site.

The terrorist group stated that Israel failed to kill its top members.

Qatari authorities were still searching for the two other lower-level terrorists, according to the BBC.

“The Ministry of Interior announces that the funeral prayer for the martyrs of the Israeli targeting … will be held on the afternoon of Thursday, September 11, 2025, at Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Wahhab Mosque, and they will be buried in the Mesaimeer Cemetery,” the ministry tweeted on Thursday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday invoked the memory of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States as he defended Israel’s strike in Qatar targeting those behind the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.

“We remember September 11. On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery on American soil since the founding of the United States,” Netanyahu said.

“We also have a September 11. We remember October 7. On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”

The Hamas officials targeted in Doha had for years directed the Palestinian terrorist group’s operations, were directly responsible for the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre and have been managing the ongoing war against Israel, according to an Israel Defense Forces statement.

The military said measures were taken to minimize civilian casualties, including the use of precision munitions. It added that efforts would continue with determination to defeat Hamas.