{"id":5752,"date":"2025-09-09T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/5752\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:49:07","slug":"live-updates-hamas-says-top-leaders-survived-israeli-strike-on-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/5752\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Hamas says top leaders survived Israeli strike on Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamas says its top leaders survived the Israeli strike on Qatar<\/a> and that five lower-ranking members died.<\/p>\n

A Qatari security personnel was also killed, the Hamas statement said.<\/p>\n

Hamas, which has sometimes only confirmed the assassination of its leaders months later, offered no immediate proof its top leaders had survived.<\/p>\n

Israel launched a strike targeting Hamas\u2019 leadership in Qatar on Tuesday as they considered a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip<\/a>. The strike on the territory of a U.S. ally marked a stunning escalation and risked upending talks aimed at winding down the war<\/a> and freeing hostages.<\/p>\n

What to know: <\/p>\n

The son of Hamas\u2019 leader in Gaza killed in strike: The son of Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas\u2019 leader for Gaza and top negotiator, was killed along with the head of al-Hayya\u2019s office, said Suheil al-Hindi, a member of Hamas\u2019 political bureau, speaking to Al-Jazeera. A member of Qatar\u2019s Internal Security Force was killed and others were wounded, Qatar\u2019s Interior Ministry said.The US knew about the strike in advance: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that U.S. diplomatic envoy Steve Witkoff passed along a warning<\/a> to the Qataris once the White House was made aware of the strike. The U.S. military did not participate in the strikes<\/a>, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. However, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari derided the warning, saying in a post on X that it came just as \u201cthe explosions from the Israeli strikes were being heard.\u201dQatar responds: Qatar condemned what it referred to as a \u201ccowardly Israeli attack\u201d<\/a> on Hamas\u2019 political headquarters in Doha. Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari called it a \u201cflagrant violation of all international laws and norms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamas says its top leaders survived the Israeli strike on Qatar and that five lower-ranking members died. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,61,2034,43,6804],"class_list":["post-5752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-mideast-wars","tag-news","tag-qatar-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}