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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-doha-qatar-strike.html
Israel Attempts to Kill Hamas Leadership in Qatar
(New York Times) Adam Rasgon - Israel attempted to kill senior members of Hamas in an airstrike on Tuesday in Qatar. Hamas said the Israeli strike had failed to kill senior officials in the group. President Trump said, "This was a decision made by Prime Minister Netanyahu. It was not a decision made by me." He said he had "immediately" directed his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, to inform the Qataris of the impending attack, but that Witkoff had done so "unfortunately, too late." "I view Qatar as a strong Ally and friend of the U.S., and feel very badly about the location of the attack," Trump wrote on social media. "I want ALL of the Hostages, and bodies of the dead, released, and this War to END, NOW!" Israeli officials have vowed to kill Hamas leaders who were involved in the planning of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that ignited the war in Gaza. A week ago, Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, the IDF chief of the staff, said: "We are operating across the entire Middle East. Hamas will have no place to hide from us. Wherever we locate them, whether they are senior or junior figures - we strike them all, all the time." The Prime Minister's Office said, "Today's action against the top terrorist chieftains of Hamas was a wholly independent Israeli operation. Israel initiated it, Israel conducted it, and Israel takes full responsibility."