Michael Eisenberg, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s representative for Gaza affairs, met Ali Al-Thawadi, a representative of Qatar\u2019s emir, in New York on Wednesday, Israel\u2019s Channel 12 reported Saturday evening. <\/p>\n
The meeting took place roughly 24 hours before Netanyahu criticized Qatar in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n
According to the report, Eisenberg and Al-Thawadi spoke for about half an hour. Their discussion focused on US President Donald Trump\u2019s plan for the Gaza Strip, developments there and ways to carry out the plan\u2019s provisions. They also discussed humanitarian measures Israel had committed to implementing in Gaza.<\/p>\n
The meeting followed a \u201cPeace Council\u201d session devoted to a plan for the initial reconstruction of Gaza. Channel 12 also reported that Al-Thawadi had previously participated in a White House call during which Netanyahu apologized to Qatar\u2019s prime minister.<\/p>\n
The reported talks stand in contrast to Netanyahu\u2019s public remarks the next day. In his UN speech, he accused Qatar of spending billions of dollars to spread what he called lies about Israel. He also accused Doha of hosting Hamas members involved in the October 7 attack.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu: Billions have been funded to spread lies about Israel, by Qatar and now Turkey<\/p>\n
Netanyahu described the contest over coverage of Israel in the international media and on social networks as an \u201ceighth front,\u201d alongside the military fronts Israel faces. He singled out Qatar, pointing to its past investments in US universities and media outlets, including Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Eisenberg, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s representative for Gaza affairs, met Ali Al-Thawadi, a representative of Qatar\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-628838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628838","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=628838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}