Tag: Qatar
Texas A&M to shutter Qatar campus over Middle East ‘heightened instability’
The board of regents of Texas A&M University, a nearly 150-year-old public school with an undergraduate enrollment of more than 60,000, voted on Thursday to undergo a “multi-year process” to close its campus in Qatar.
“The board...
‘Hatikvah’ played in Doha after Israeli wins gold in fencing
"Hatikvah," the Jewish state's national anthem, sounded in a Doha sporting arena this week after Israeli fencer Yuval Freilich won a gold medal at the International Fencing Federation's Grand Prix, which ended on Wednesday...
Qatar: Hamas gives initial approval for hostages-for-ceasefire deal
Qatar has received an "initial positive confirmation" from the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza in response to its most recent hostages-for-ceasefire proposal, Doha's Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday night, according to Al Jazeera.
"Israel agreed to...
Smotrich: Qatar ‘largely responsible’ for Oct. 7 massacre
Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich fired back at Qatar for supporting Hamas terrorism after the Arab Gulf state attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday for alleged remarks about Doha's role as a mediator in hostage...
Hostages in Gaza yet to receive medicines from Qataris
France has sent badly needed medicines to Qatar for Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, the European nation's embassy in Tel Aviv confirmed to the Times of Israel on Tuesday.
President Emmanuel Macron ordered the foreign...
Report raises questions about Qatar’s knowledge of Oct. 7 attack
Western intelligence officials interviewed by Politico in recent weeks say that Qatar, a longtime patron of Hamas in Gaza, may have had prior knowledge of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
“We’re still looking into it,” a...
Qatar uses Israeli hostages to extend lifeline to Hamas
While the U.S. pressures Qatar to expel Hamas leaders from its territory, Doha is instead trying to leverage its mediation to secure the terrorist groups’ future in the Gulf state.
“Qatar is under very heavy pressure from...
Hamas officials quit Qatar, shut down cellphones
Several Hamas leaders recently left Qatar together with their entourages, cutting off communications including cellphones.
The leaders left for Algeria, Lebanon, Iran and other countries, according to sources cited by Kan News’s Arabic channel.
Among Hamas leaders...
Hamas expected to hand over 10 hostages, three bodies
The hostage-release list received by the Israeli government for Thursday includes 10 women and children, including two dual-citizen Russian nationals.
The terrorist group will also reportedly release the bodies of three hostages.
Previous statements by the...
Jihadi Marxism
The ironies of “social justice” leftists supporting Hamas, self-proclaimed genocidal jihadists, are indeed endless. “Colonizer!” is one of the leftists’ favorite words to shout at those they’re told to hate, including Israel. The fact...