When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered this week’s attempted assassination of Hamas leaders in Qatar, he took a major gamble in his campaign to pound the group into submission

Following the Doha strike, mediator Bahbah states that Hamas leaders remain alive and open to negotiations, although distrust in the US complicates the efforts. Palestinian-American mediator Bishara Bahbah,

Hamas leaders in Doha praised the terrorist attack, claimed responsibility, and called for more carnage. When Hamas terrorists in Gaza carried out the horrific October 7 attack on Israel, Al Jazeera broadcast Hamas leaders in Doha celebrating and praying as a group while images of Hamas terrorists rampaging and massacring Israeli civilians played on a nearby television.