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'Correct a historical injustice': Yair Lapid to table Knesset bill branding Qatar as 'enemy state'

Lapid plans to table legislation defining Qatar as an enemy state, accusing it of acting against Israel’s security interests, including by funding terror groups, such as Hamas.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid speaking at the Knesset, Jerusalem, January 26, 2026.
 Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani attends a press conference, in Doha, Qatar, October 24, 2024.

Qatar says it will provide Lebanon with $430 million in financial support

 Eli Feldstein, who were arrested in the so-called Qatargate investigation seen at the District Court in Tel Aviv, on May 15, 2025.

Feldstein says 'Netanyahu erased concept of responsibility for October 7,' in first KAN interview

Qatari PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani sat down with Tucker Carlson at The Doha Forum

Qatari PM: Qatar’s ties with Hamas began at US request, always served peace efforts


Qatar, Mossad officials meet in Israel, Hamas looks to extend Gaza ceasefire

Qatar, which mediated the original hostage deal even though it has no formal diplomatic relations with Israel, sent an intelligence delegation to Israel on Saturday to discuss extending the deal.

 A convoy of Red Cross vehicles believed to be carrying hostages drives by in the southern Gaza Strip, November 26, 2023

Qatar punches above its weight by talking to everyone - opinion

Winston Churchill once described Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Qatar is close to meriting the same epithet.

Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad bin Jassim Al Thani holds a joint news conference with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Doha this week.

The secret negotiations that led to the Gaza hostages deal

Begun days after Hamas's October 7 attack, the painstaking negotiations finally culminated in a deal to release 50 hostages in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners and a four-day pause in fighting.

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani attend a meeting in Lusail, Qatar, Friday Oct. 13, 2023

Qatar claims 'good progress' made on Gaza hostage deal

As part of that deal, Israel would agree to a five-day ceasefire, during which time the hostages would be released in small groups.

Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani speaks during a news conference at Wajbah Palace, in Doha March 5, 2013.

US envoy McGurk arrives amid reports of deal to free 50 Gaza hostages

The deal would also involve increasing the amount of humanitarian aid allowed into Gaza, an official said.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with US Special Coordinator for the Middle East Brett McGurk, November 15, 2023

Qatar seeking Israel-Hamas deal to release 50 hostages and 3-day truce, sources say

 Qatari Amiri Air Force crew load food and medical aid to their cargo plane from the Qatar Fund for Development headed to Egypt for Gaza, at Al Udeid Air Base, Doha, Qatar, October 16, 2023.

Qatar mediates talks for release of up to 15 Israeli hostages from Gaza

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum insisted that any move for a ceasefire must include the release of all of the hostages from Gaza.

 An artist sprays a graffiti for the release of  Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in the Jezreel Valley, on October 30, 2023

Netanyahu: 'There won’t be a ceasefire without the return of the hostages'

Netanyahu spoke amid growing pressure from the international to press Israel to accept a mechanism for a series of humanitarian pauses.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Ramon airbase in southern Israel on November 5, 2023

First Americans and other foreign nationals flee Gaza through Rafah

At least 320 foreign nationals and dozens of severely injured Gazans were among the first beneficiaries of the Qatari-mediated deal brokered between Egypt, Israel and Hamas. 

Egyptian quarantine doctors conduct medical examinations for foreign passport holders after their arrival at the Rafah crossing from Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terroristgroup Hamas in Rafah, Egypt November 1, 2023 in this handout picture courtesy of the Egypti

Qatar-led negotiations between Israel and Hamas continue -source

Earlier, the armed wing of Hamas said it had been close to reaching an agreement with Israel over the hostages, but Israel had "stalled" on that possibility.

 People attend a demonstration organised by the Switzerland-Israel Association against the attacks by Hamas, outside the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, October 11, 2023. (Not the demonstration mentioned in this article.)