'Very unhappy': Trump lashes out at Israel after military strike in Qatar Babak DehghanpishehSeptember 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM 0 President Donald Trump chided Israel Tuesday over its attack targeting Hamas' leadership in Qatar, a country that has hosted Gaza peace negotiations as well as a military base ...
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Babak DehghanpishehSeptember 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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President Donald Trump chided Israel Tuesday over its attack targeting Hamas' leadership in Qatar, a country that has hosted Gaza peace negotiations as well as a military base for thousands of U.S. troops.
"Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker Peace, does not advance Israel or America's goals," Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that it was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who had made the decision to carry out the attack.
He added, "I view Qatar as a strong Ally and friend of the U.S., and feel very badly about the location of the attack."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt read a similar statement aloud at Tuesday's briefing.
Speaking to reporters later that night, Trump said, "I'm not thrilled about it."
"I was very unhappy about it, very unhappy about every aspect, and we got to get the hostages back. But I was very unhappy about the way that went down," he said of the attack.
Trump has largely been supportive of Netanyahu during ramped-up Israeli military operations in Gaza which in recent days have led to the demolition of several high-rise buildings and dozens of deaths in the densely populated urban environment of Gaza City.
The president's criticism may have stemmed from being kept in the dark about Israel's attack plans. Trump wrote on Truth Social that his administration was informed by the U.S. military that "Israel was attacking Hamas which, very unfortunately, was located in a section of Doha, the Capital of Qatar."
President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet and administration, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, arrive for dinner at Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab, in Washington, DC., on Tuesday. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
The attack could easily derail all diplomatic efforts at a peace deal. On Friday, Trump said that the U.S. is in "very deep" negotiations with Hamas.
At the same time, Trump wrote Tuesday that "eliminating Hamas, who have profited off the misery of those living in Gaza, is a worthy goal." The comment made his public criticism of Israel even more unexpected.
The attack leaves the status of the talks for ending the conflict in Gaza — and the fate of the remaining hostages — in limbo, particularly after Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar's prime minister, called the Israeli strike an act of "treachery."
Trump spoke to Al Thani and the Qatari emir on Tuesday to reassure them that this type of attack would not be repeated.
Still, it's clear that the attack has created some friction between the United States and Qatar. Al Thani was not shy about disputing Trump's account of the events leading up to the attack.
Trump posted that he had "immediately" instructed his special envoy Steve Witkoff to inform Qatar about the impending attack. Al Thani said that the first call they received from a U.S. official was 10 minutes after the attack.
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