RIYADH: Qatar denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks about Doha’s hosting of a Hamas office as “reckless” and a “shameful attempt” to justify Israel’s “cowardly attack” on Qatari territory. “Netanyahu is fully aware that the hosting of the Hamas office took place within the framework of Qatar’s mediation efforts requested by the United States and Israel,” Qatar said in a strongly worded statement issued by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Qatar says Israel’s attack targeting residential building in Doha a ‘flagrant violation of international law’.

On Tuesday afternoon, Israel launched airstrikes on a residential area of Doha, Qatar’s capital, apparently targeting the Hamas team that has been negotiating the terms of a…