{"id":296,"date":"2025-09-10T05:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=296"},"modified":"2025-09-10T05:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:32:04","slug":"qatar-rejects-us-claim-of-warning-before-israeli-strike-in-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Qatar rejects US claim of warning before Israeli strike in Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DOHA : <strong>Qatar has strongly denied a White House claim that it was warned ahead of Israel\u2019s strike on Hamas negotiators in its capital, saying the call from Washington came only after explosions had already begun.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House said on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration had notified Qatari officials before the Israeli strike in Doha. The attack hit a residential area in the Qatari capital, killing five Hamas members and a Qatari security officer, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Israel targeted Hamas members \u201cunfortunately located in Doha,\u201d but stressed that unilateral bombing inside Qatar \u201cdoes not advance Israel or America\u2019s goals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leavitt added that Trump directed his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to inform Qatari officials of the impending strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qatar\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the claim, saying it was not pre-informed. Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari wrote on X that the US call came \u201cduring the sound of the explosions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said the notification from Washington was received ten minutes after the attack had already begun. He condemned the incident as \u201cstate terrorism\u201d and a violation of Qatari sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump later expressed regret, saying he felt \u201cvery badly about the location of the attack\u201d and assured Qatar it would not happen again. He clarified that the strike was an independent decision by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis was a decision made by [Israeli] Prime Minister Netanyahu, it was not a decision made by me,\u201d Trump posted on Truth Social, reiterating that his envoy had tried to warn Qatar but the effort came \u201ctoo late.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA : Qatar has strongly denied a White House claim that it was warned ahead of Israel\u2019s strike on Hamas negotiators in its capital, saying the call from Washington came only after explosions had already begun. The White House said on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration had notified Qatari officials before the Israeli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}