US military notified Trump before Israeli strike on Hamas in Doha

The White House says the U.S. military notified President Donald Trump ahead of Israel’s strike against Hamas leadership in Qatar.

“The president views Qatar as a strong ally of the United States. He feels very badly about the location of this attack,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday.

“He assured them [Qatar] that such a thing will not happen again on their soil,” she added, calling it an “unfortunate incident.”

Israel launched a strike targeting Hamas’ leadership in Qatar’s capital Tuesday as they considered a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

A U.S. official confirmed to Military Times that the U.S. did not participate in the Doha strike, which risked upending the peace talks aimed at concluding the war and freeing hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks against Israel. About 50 hostages remain in Gaza, although it is unclear how many of those hostages are still alive.

Hamas said Tuesday that five of its members were killed in the strike, along with a Qatari security officer, but top leaders had survived the attack.

Qatar has hosted Hamas’s political bureau since 2012 and helped start indirect negotiations between the group and Israel following the October 2023 attacks. Footage showed smoke rising from a heavily damaged section of a complex on Wadi Rawdan Street north of central Doha.

The White House says Trump spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the attack, who told him that Israel wanted to quickly make peace.

Qatar is considered a U.S. ally and hosts thousands of American troops . Its leadership condemned the strike as a “flagrant violation of all international laws and norms.”

European leaders also condemned the attack. In a statement, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said, “Israel’s strike in Doha not only violates Qatar’s territorial sovereignty, but also jeopardizes all our efforts to secure the hostages’ release.”

Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas after the group launched a terror attack that killed 1,200 people and led to the capture of 250 hostages, including American citizens.

Israel’s counteroffensive has killed tens of thousands of people in Gaza, including women and children, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry. Israel says the death toll includes thousands of Hamas fighters.

白宫表示，美国军方在以色列对卡塔尔哈马斯领导层发动袭击前已通知了唐纳德·特朗普总统。

白宫发言人卡罗琳·莱维特周二告诉记者：“总统视卡塔尔为美国的坚定盟友。他对此次袭击的地点感到非常难过。”

她补充说：“他向他们（卡塔尔）保证，这种事情不会再在他们的领土上发生”，并称这是一起“不幸的事件”。

周二，以色列对卡塔尔首都哈马斯领导层发动空袭，当时哈马斯正在考虑美国提出的加沙地带停火方案。

一位美国官员向《军事时报》证实，美国并未参与对多哈的空袭。此次空袭有可能破坏旨在结束战争并解救在2023年10月7日哈马斯对以色列发动恐怖袭击中被劫持的人质的和平谈判。目前仍有约50名人质被困在加沙，但尚不清楚其中有多少人仍然在世。

哈马斯周二表示，其五名成员和一名卡塔尔安全官员在袭击中丧生，但高级领导人幸免于难。

自2012年以来，卡塔尔一直是哈马斯政治局的所在地，并在2013年10月袭击事件后帮助该组织与以色列启动了间接谈判。画面显示，多哈市中心北部瓦迪罗丹街一处建筑群严重受损的部分冒出浓烟。

白宫表示，袭击发生后，特朗普与以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡通了电话，内塔尼亚胡告诉他，以色列希望尽快实现和平。

卡塔尔被视为美国的盟友，境内驻扎着数千名美军士兵。卡塔尔领导人谴责此次袭击是“公然违反所有国际法律和准则”。

欧洲领导人也谴责了此次袭击。德国外交部长约翰·瓦德普尔在一份声明中表示：“以色列对多哈的袭击不仅侵犯了卡塔尔的领土主权，也危及了我们为确保人质获释所做的一切努力。”

以色列誓言要摧毁哈马斯，此前该组织发动恐怖袭击，造成 1200 人死亡，250 名人质被劫持，其中包括美国公民。

据哈马斯控制的加沙卫生部称，以色列的反攻已在加沙造成数万人死亡，其中包括妇女和儿童。以色列方面则表示，死亡人数中包括数千名哈马斯武装人员。