{"id":413437,"date":"2025-09-10T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413437\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:21:11","slug":"after-qatar-attack-israel-ambassador-to-us-says-well-get-them-next-time-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413437\/","title":{"rendered":"After Qatar attack, Israel ambassador to US says \u2018we\u2019ll get them next time\u2019 | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Israeli diplomat Yechiel Leiter says countries criticising Israel over launching air strikes on Doha will \u2018get over it\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/ali_harb_200919153312036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image001-1721915333.jpg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 10 Sep 202510 Sep 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington, DC \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Hours after United States President Donald Trump promised that Israel would not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2025\/9\/10\/live-israels-deadly-attack-on-hamas-in-qatar-draws-global-condemnation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attack Qatar<\/a> again, the Israeli ambassador to the US suggested that his country could repeat its attempt to kill Hamas officials within the Gulf country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Fox News late on Tuesday, Yechiel Leiter said if Hamas leaders had survived the Doha bombardment, Israel would target them again.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we didn\u2019t get them this time, we\u2019ll get them the next time,\u201d the Israeli envoy said.<\/p>\n<p>Israel launched air attacks in Doha targeting a Hamas delegation that was meeting to discuss Trump\u2019s Gaza <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/7\/trump-suggests-he-put-forward-new-gaza-ceasefire-proposal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ceasefire proposal<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>But Hamas said its top leaders \u2013 including its Gaza chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/10\/who-is-khalil-al-hayya-who-else-was-targeted-in-israels-attack-on-qatar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Khalil al-Hayya<\/a> \u2013 survived the assassination attempt, which killed six people, including a Qatari security officer.<\/p>\n<p>Countries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/9\/israeli-attack-in-doha-sparks-regional-and-international-condemnation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">across the world<\/a>, including some of Israel\u2019s Western allies, condemned the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli air raids appear to have violated several provisions of international law, including the United Nations Charter\u2019s prohibition on aggression against sovereign states.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar described the strikes as \u201cstate terrorism\u201d and called for a regional response against the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani accused Netanyahu of undermining regional stability and peace in pursuit of \u201cnarcissistic delusions\u201d and personal gains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking to violate the sovereignty of nations without any care must not be overlooked and must be confronted by all means,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, a staunch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2025\/2\/26\/trump-posts-bizarre-ai-video-of-a-rebuilt-gaza-with-netanyahu-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supporter of Israel<\/a>, also expressed misgivings with the attack, but stopped short of publicly condemning it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker Peace, does not advance Israel or America\u2019s goals,\u201d he wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar is a major non-NATO ally of the US, and it has helped mediate several international agreements involving Washington. The Gulf country also hosts one of the largest US military bases in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The US president added on Tuesday that he spoke to Qatar\u2019s emir and prime minister and \u201cassured them that such a thing will not happen again on their soil\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But Leiter dismissed the US and international concerns, saying that Israel \u2013 which attacked at least five Arab countries over the past month \u2013 is changing the region \u201cfor the better\u201d and working to \u201cdefeat Islamic extremism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we may be subject to a little bit of criticism. They\u2019ll get over it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Israel receives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/10\/7\/us-spends-more-than-20bn-in-aid-to-israel-middle-east-conflicts-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">billions of dollars<\/a> in US military aid annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli diplomat Yechiel Leiter says countries criticising Israel over launching air strikes on Doha will \u2018get over it\u2019.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[32,837,7424,839,12,1814,6860,49,978,286,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-413437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-israel-palestine-conflict","11":"tag-middle-east","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-palestine","14":"tag-qatar","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-us-canada","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115180685867765448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}