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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Urooba Jamal

The price of mediation? How Qatar could respond to Israel’s attack

Qatari officials have repeatedly stated that the decision to host the Hamas leadership came after a request from the US [Showkat Shafi/ Al Jazeera]

Doha, Qatar – The sight of plumes of smoke in the aftermath of Israeli bombings have become commonplace across the Middle East in recent months – but in the skyline of Qatar’s glitzy capital, it was wholly unprecedented.

Israel’s attack on Doha on Tuesday – the sixth country it has attacked this year – appeared to target the Palestinian group Hamas’s negotiating team, who were speculated at the time to be on the brink of closing a ceasefire deal for Gaza.

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