US President Donald Trump earlier criticised Israel’s strikes, writing that unilaterally striking inside Qatar “does not advance Israel or America’s goals”.
However, he added that “this unfortunate incident could serve as an opportunity for PEACE”, and that the elimination of Hamas was a “worthy goal”.
The strikes on Doha shocked many in the region, who had long assumed that close relations with the US would offer security.
In May, Trump announced a “historic” economic agreement signed between Qatar and the US that he said was valued at least $1.2 trillion (£890bn).
Qatar also recently gifted Trump a plane – valued at $400m – as an “unconditional gift” to be used as the new Air Force One, the official aircraft of the US president.
On Friday, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) summoned the deputy Israeli ambassador over the Israeli strike on Doha as well as what it described as “hostile and unacceptable” remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The UAE normalised diplomatic ties with Israel under the 2020 Abraham Accords, a US-brokered agreement which led to co-operation across a range of issues, from security to the economy.
The accords, which were also signed by Morocco, Bahrain and Sudan, are widely seen as one of Donald Trump’s major foreign policy achievements from his first term in office.
Hamas said that its negotiating team survived Israel’s strikes on Doha on Tuesday, but that five of its members were killed, including the son of the group’s chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya. A Qatari security officer was also killed.