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.
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Hopefully it was indeed precise.
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.
Ruh roh
Tuck Qataralson will be worried about his next Israel bashing check arriving and issuing a screed shortly ?
No member of Hamas should be safe anywhere. They’re lower than bacteria deserving nothing but to be disinfected.
Media Response: “This is a very provocative attack by Israel and may drive Hamas into committing terrorists acts.”
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.
“From the river to the sea, Israel will be Hamas-free”.
Exactly.
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.
“This is REALLY going to piss off Tucker Carlson.”
indeed, so Tucker Carlson to the rescue ...
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 ...
“...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.
From the river to the sea
Gaza will be Hamas free
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