Qatar to Discuss 'New Threat Perception' of Israel with Trump: PM Adviser

Source: Newsweek

Published Sep 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT | Updated Sep 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM EDT


A senior Qatari official has told Newsweek that the nation and its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) partners were planning to convey to President Donald Trump a drastic change in regional views toward Israel fallout as a result of its recent strike in Doha.

Speaking on the eve of the high-level week of the United Nations General Assembly that will bring leaders and top officials from across the world to New York City, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari described the Israeli strike that targeted a Hamas office in the Qatari capital, killing six people, including 22-year-old Qatari Internal Security Force Lance Corporal Badr Saad Mohammed al-Humaidi al-Dosari, as "a moment that changed Qatari society forever."

"For the first time in our history, one of our own was killed by an airstrike on our country," al-Ansari, who also serves as adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, said, "an airstrike that wasn't warranted, had nothing to do with Qatari participation in any kind of violent conflict, anywhere, and was a direct result of Qatar choosing to be an actor for peace."

The effects of the September 9 strike, which al-Ansari said took place as Hamas officials met to discuss a new ceasefire proposal to the ongoing war in Gaza that Qatar has played a key role in mediating, have reverberated far beyond the peninsular nation of around 2.6 million people bordering Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. "This has changed the region forever," al-Ansari said. "Our region post the ninth of September is not the same region as it was before."

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