{"id":838273,"date":"2026-09-06T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838273\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:04:09","slug":"netanyahu-boasts-about-bombing-qatar-says-gaza-funds-used-for-aid-benjamin-netanyahu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838273\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu boasts about bombing Qatar, says Gaza funds used for aid | Benjamin Netanyahu News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Netanyahu has called Qatar a \u2018hostile\u2019 state and boasted that Israel bombed the country.<\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has boasted about bombing Qatar, while dismissing domestic accusations that funds sent to Gaza were used for anything other than aid.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Israel\u2019s i24NEWS that he shared on social media on Saturday, Netanyahu said Qatar was a \u201chostile\u201d state that did not dictate Israeli policy during its genocidal war on Gaza.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI attacked Qatar, I also bombed it and attacked them during the war, and they attacked me,\u201d Netanyahu boasted.<\/p>\n

The interview comes just days before the one-year anniversary of Israel\u2019s September 9, 2025, strike<\/a> on Doha. The bombing killed five Hamas members and a Qatari security officer during a meeting to discuss the United States-backed Gaza ceasefire proposal.<\/p>\n

Qatar, which has long served as a mediator in Middle East conflicts and beyond, has hosted Hamas\u2019s political office since 2012, after what it says were requests from the US.<\/p>\n

Doha condemned the strike as a \u201cblatant violation of all international laws and norms\u201d, with Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Majed al-Ansari calling it a \u201ccowardly\u201d assault.<\/p>\n

Several countries in the region, including Iran and Pakistan, also condemned the attack, with leaders from Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia visiting Qatar shortly afterwards in a show of solidarity.<\/p>\n

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the strikes a \u201cflagrant violation\u201d of Qatar\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity.<\/p>\n

During a meeting later that month at the White House, Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump called Qatar\u2019s Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani to apologise<\/a> for the strike.<\/p>\n

During the i24NEWS interview, Netanyahu also defended the transfer of millions of dollars in Qatari funds to Gaza that Israel had facilitated, saying the funds were intended for humanitarian purposes and had been transferred on the recommendation of Israeli security agencies Mossad and Shin Bet.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll this money is worth 2 percent \u2013 2 percent of all the money that entered the Strip,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/p>\n

Some of Netanyahu\u2019s detractors have alleged that the funds were used to help Hamas prepare its October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which precipitated its genocidal war on Gaza.<\/p>\n

Qatar denies such allegations, saying any claims that it funds Hamas are unfounded and pointing to the strict oversight governing its aid transfers.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, when they [Israel] are claiming that this is the financing of Qatar to Hamas, it has no basis,\u201d Sheikh Mohammed said during last year\u2019s Doha Forum.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll our aid \u2026 went to Gaza, went to the people, and was under a very transparent process that the United States is fully aware about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Netanyahu made the remarks weeks before Israelis head to the polls on October 27, in the country\u2019s first general election since its war on Gaza began in 2023.<\/p>\n

With the October vote approaching, Netanyahu faces mounting pressure at home over his government\u2019s handling of the Gaza war, the economy and the war with Iran \u2014 all shaping up as central issues in the campaign.<\/p>\n

Analysts and critics say Netanyahu has repeatedly stoked tensions with other states ahead of elections to rally nationalist support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netanyahu has called Qatar a \u2018hostile\u2019 state and boasted that Israel bombed the country. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,5620,5618,5617,803,2563,129,3,15275,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-838273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-qatar","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}