{"id":63669,"date":"2025-09-14T14:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63669\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:26:10","slug":"marco-rubio-says-trump-was-unhappy-with-strike-on-qatar-ahead-of-israel-visit-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63669\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio says Trump was unhappy with strike on Qatar ahead of Israel visit \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

US secretary of state Marco Rubio<\/a> has arrived in Israel for a two-day visit, as its attacks against northern Gaza intensified.<\/p>\n

Mr Rubio said he will be seeking answers from Israeli officials about how they see the way forward in Gaza<\/a> following Israel\u2019s attack on Hamas<\/a> operatives in Qatar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking before leaving for Israel, Mr Rubio said president Donald Trump<\/a> remains unhappy with the Israeli strike but that it does not shake US support for Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to talk about what the future holds, and I\u2019m going to get a much better understanding of what their plans are moving forward,\u201d Mr Rubio said.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously we\u2019re not happy about it. The president was not happy about it. Now we need to move forward and figure out what comes next.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Rubio and Mr Trump met on Friday with Qatar\u2019s prime minister to discuss the fallout from the Israeli operation, in a demonstration of how the Trump administration is trying to balance relations between key Middle East allies days after Israel targeted Hamas leaders in a strike on Doha.<\/p>\n

The attack has drawn widespread international condemnation and appears to have ended attempts to secure an Israel-Hamas ceasefire and the release of hostages ahead of the upcoming UN General Assembly session at which the Gaza war is expected to be a primary focus.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump \u201cwants Hamas defeated, he wants the war to end, he wants all 48 hostages home, including those that are deceased, and he wants it all at once\u201d, Mr Rubio said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll have to discuss about how the events last week had an impact on the ability to achieve that in short order,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mr Rubio will have meetings in Jerusalem on Sunday and Monday with Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and others.<\/p>\n

His visit is a show of support for the increasingly isolated country before the United Nations holds what is likely to be a contentious debate on the creation of a Palestinian state, which Mr Netanyahu opposes.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration is walking a delicate line between two major allies after Israel took its fight with Hamas to the Qatari capital, where leaders of the militant group had gathered to consider a US proposal for a ceasefire in the nearly two-year war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Qatar is a key mediator, and while its leaders have vowed to press forward, the next steps are uncertain for a long-sought deal to halt the fighting and release hostages taken from Israel. <\/p>\n

At least 13 Palestinians were killed and dozens were injured in the latest Israeli strikes across Gaza.<\/p>\n

Hospitals said Israeli strikes targeted a vehicle near Shifa hospital and a roundabout in Gaza City, and a tent in the city of Deir al-Balah that killed at least six members of the same family.<\/p>\n

Two parents, their three children and the children\u2019s aunt were killed in that strike, according to the Al-Aqsa hospital. The family arrived in Deir al-Balah last week after fleeing their shelter in Gaza City<\/p>\n

The Israeli military did not have immediate comment on the strikes.<\/p>\n

As part of its expanding operation in Gaza City, the Israeli military destroyed a high-rise residential building on Sunday morning, less than an hour after an evacuation order posted online by a military spokesman.<\/p>\n

Residents said the Kauther tower in the Rimal neighbourhood was flattened. There were no immediate reports of casualties.\u2013 AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US secretary of state Marco Rubio has arrived in Israel for a two-day visit, as its attacks against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6222,9,10,356,18,13,14,6,19,17,71,45036,11,12,15,16,6587,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-63669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-binyamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-israel-iran-conflict","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-marco-rubio","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}