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Israel Strikes Hamas Headquarters in Qatar
Mediaite ^ | 9/9/2025 | Isaac Schorr

Posted on 09/09/2025 6:47:20 AM PDT by Miami Rebel

An explosion at Hamas’ headquarters in Doha, Qatar on Tuesday is believed to be part of an Israeli assassination attempt on the terrorist organization’s leadership.

“Several blasts were heard in Qatar’s Doha on Tuesday,” reported Reuters, which added that “Smoke was seen rising over the Katara District in the capital.”

Axios’s Barak Ravid revealed on X that an Israeli official had told him that the explosions were the fruit of “an assassination operation against senior Hamas officials.”

🚨BREAKING: About 10 explosions in Qatar, Doha.

This is the Hamas general headquarters. pic.twitter.com/QL5wT5cDfV

— Eli Afriat 🇮🇱🎗 (@EliAfriatISR) September 9, 2025

Senior Israeli 🇮🇱 told Barak Ravid that the explosion in Doha 🇶🇦 is an assassination operation against Hamas leaders

Several blasts were heard in Qatar's Doha on Tuesday, Reuters witnesses said.

Smoke was seen rising over the Katara District in the capital, an eyewitness said… https://t.co/6Kd1mOEZvT pic.twitter.com/cs1BGEHLG8

— Saad Abedine (@SaadAbedine) September 9, 2025

Khalil al-Hayya, the chairman of Hamas’ political bureau, met with the Qatari Prime Ministers in Doha on Monday.

The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it had targeted Hamas’ “senior leadership” with a “precise strike.”

“For years, these members of the Hamas leadership have led the terrorist organization’s operations, are directly responsible for the brutal October 7th massacre, and have been orchestrating and managing the war against the State of Israel,” read the statement.

This is a developing story.


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: hamas; israel; qatar; waronterror

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This is REALLY going to piss off Tucker Carlson.
1 posted on 09/09/2025 6:47:20 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel
The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it had targeted Hamas’ “senior leadership” with a “precise strike.”

Hopefully it was indeed precise.

2 posted on 09/09/2025 6:50:37 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Miami Rebel

HAMAS/PLO/Islamic Jihad/the Islamic Brotherhood, Al-Nusra Front/Hezbollah are ALL DEATH CULTS therefore they need to fulfill their ultimate purpose, die a horrible death for all the misery they have unleashed upon the world.


3 posted on 09/09/2025 6:52:54 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: Miami Rebel

Ruh roh

Tuck Qataralson will be worried about his next Israel bashing check arriving and issuing a screed shortly ?


4 posted on 09/09/2025 6:53:11 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: Miami Rebel

No member of Hamas should be safe anywhere. They’re lower than bacteria deserving nothing but to be disinfected.


5 posted on 09/09/2025 6:54:27 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Miami Rebel

Media Response: “This is a very provocative attack by Israel and may drive Hamas into committing terrorists acts.”


6 posted on 09/09/2025 7:13:58 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Miami Rebel; 1Old Pro; Netz; Telepathic Intruder
As long as articles keep appearing around Israeli genocide and IDF killing of civilians I’ll keep posting this piece of reality about civilian deaths in warfare. The very fact Hamas and Hezbollah say they can count the number killed means these people were within the boundaries of their control. Any realistic appraisal of their behavior would see they consider civilians as so many biodegradable sandbags possessing utility as political props.

The idea of “bringing terrorists to justice” is a breathtaking mockery of any civilized understanding of justice. The feral psychopaths of Hamas and Hezbollah never display the civility required for Geneva Convention definitions for militia, armed force, or volunteer corps, but are so dissociated from country or culture, so committed to butchery that they best match Webster’s definition for a virus. They are not insurgents or freedom fighters, and when captured, certainly not prisoners of war. These killers are not members of an organized resistance movement carrying arms openly, and they have no distinctive identifier. The Geneva Conventions place terrorists beyond the pale, place no limits in dealing with their depredations, and consider their eradication as the best means of justice.

The Geneva Conventions, which attempt to grasp rational, moral threads to apply during wars’ barbarity formed the basis for our operations. For my Navy experience helping to pulverize a major enemy base in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, I especially liked the obvious reading of Articles 28 and 29 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The VC were responsible for any civilian deaths in the base our ship shelled. Those civilians qualified as Protected Persons within the enemy’s physical control and could not be used to render certain points and areas immune from military operations. The Convention articles are as follows:

ART. 28. — The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.

ART. 29. — The Party to the conflict in whose hands protected persons may be, is responsible for the treatment accorded to them by its agents, irrespective of any individual responsibility which may be incurred.

The passages furnished the basis for rules of engagement we followed when attacking a legitimate military target. The base the SEAL team identified in the U Minh Forest had been continuously used at least since the Vietnamese had fought the Japanese, so families of the VC would have been residents as well. Distance provided me with the blessing of avoiding the cleanup afterwards for the mess I helped create. However, I am certain our task force was effective. We helped to permanently shatter the last intact VC main force unit, forcing it to surrender the region to South Vietnamese control.

7 posted on 09/09/2025 7:14:12 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Miami Rebel

“From the river to the sea, Israel will be Hamas-free”.


8 posted on 09/09/2025 7:15:25 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: Retain Mike
The Geneva Conventions place terrorists beyond the pale, place no limits in dealing with their depredations, and consider their eradication as the best means of justice.

Exactly.

9 posted on 09/09/2025 7:16:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: All

Regardless of narrative and who wears a white hat or a black hat, Qatar is enormously rich and they just had their sovereign territory attacked.

They can easily fund assassination of Netanyahu and anyone else they choose from the Israeli cabinet. Probably a series of attempts. Won’t even dent their asset totals.

Qatar’s per capita GDP is nearly double that of Israel and raw GDP on a PPP basis is above Israel’s.

This was a highly questionable move by Israel, tactically.


10 posted on 09/09/2025 8:05:01 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Miami Rebel

“This is REALLY going to piss off Tucker Carlson.”

indeed, so Tucker Carlson to the rescue ...


11 posted on 09/09/2025 8:25:26 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Retain Mike

something tells me that the timing of this strike is related to the Hamas terrorist attack yesterday that killed six and wounded eight civilians in Israel: FAFO ...

one thing is for sure: it makes it more difficult for the world media to whinge about the poor pitiful Hamas terrorist masterminds that got blowed up in their world headquarters in Doha ...


12 posted on 09/09/2025 8:33:32 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: BobL

“...Media Response: “This is a very provocative attack by Israel and may drive Hamas into committing terrorists acts...”

Actually, I’m seeing comments more along the lines of: “Israel needs to be brought to heel” and/or “Israel needs to be dismantled.”

The rabid Anti-Semites aren’t even TRYING to hide it anymore.


13 posted on 09/09/2025 9:18:01 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Miami Rebel

From the river to the sea
Gaza will be Hamas free


14 posted on 09/09/2025 9:18:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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