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- New York Times
Israel-Qatar Tensions Escalate After Israel Kills Al Jazeera Journalists
An Israeli airstrike that deliberately killed an Al Jazeera reporter, as well as several of his colleagues, has aggravated tensions between Israel and Qatar, which funds the television network and is also a central mediator in talks to end the war in Gaza. The Israeli attack on Sunday, near a hospital in Gaza City, killed five Al Jazeera journalists, the network reported: the correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh; the photographers Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa; and an assistant, Mohammed Noufal. The network had previously said four of its people died in the attack. Gaza officials said that in addition to the journalists, two others were also killed. The Israeli military had accused Mr. al-Sharif of being a Hamas fighter — an allegation that he and the network had rejected — and pointedly identified Al Jazeera as 'Qatari.' The government of Qatar responded with a strong condemnation. 'The deliberate targeting of journalists by Israel in the Gaza Strip reveals how these crimes are beyond imagination,' Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, said on Monday, in criticizing the international community's inability 'to stop this tragedy.' The attack underlined Israel's complex relationship with Qatar, which Israeli leadership relies on as a back channel to Hamas, while simultaneously regarding the country with suspicion. The rulers of Qatar — a Persian Gulf peninsula with fewer than 400,000 citizens — have used its fossil fuel wealth to achieve global prominence. Qatar is home to a U.S. military base, a major international airline, one of the world's largest sports broadcasters and the Al Jazeera news network. It has also served as a mediator between Hamas and governments, like those of Israel and the United States, that do not deal directly with the Palestinian armed group. Qatar hosts the political office of Hamas, which led the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, setting off the current war, and has contributed significant financial aid to Gaza over the years, with the knowledge and support of the Israeli government. Israel 'criticizes Qatar, and on the other hand, quietly cooperates with Qatar on all kinds of things,' said Yoel Guzansky, a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel. 'When Israelis bash Qatar, I remind them first look at what you did, and then go and blame the Qataris.' Qatar has been a major mediator in failed talks to end the war in Gaza. At the same time, the country has increasingly become a punching bag for right-wing Israeli politicians and commentators who paint it as an insidious enemy. Last week, Yair Netanyahu, an Israeli podcaster and son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accused Qatar of funding a rise in antisemitism globally. 'Every Jew around the world is in grave danger because of the decades-long vilification of Jews and the Jewish state by Qatar,' he said, without elaborating. Yaacov Bardugo, a far-right commentator considered close to the Israeli prime minister, has called for killing 'all the senior Hamas figures' in Qatar. 'I don't think we should be afraid of harming Qatar physically,' Mr. Bardugo said last week on an Israeli radio station. Peace talks have been possible because Qatari and Israeli officials 'have been able to compartmentalize, to some extent,' said Kristian Ulrichsen, a fellow for the Middle East at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. 'But with each provocation it maybe becomes harder — especially as the mediation continues to show no sign of being able to address the continuing devastation of Gaza.' Israel has long had an antagonistic relationship with Al Jazeera that has worsened during the war. Last year, it forced the network to shut down its operations in the West Bank. While other major media outlets have been blocked from entering Gaza, Al Jazeera has had numerous journalists there, providing a steady stream of stories and images of the harrowing conditions for civilians with Israel's bombardment and aid restrictions that have created widespread hunger and desperation. The Israeli military had targeted other Al Jazeera correspondents before Mr. al-Sharif, claiming they were members of Hamas's military wing — accusations that the network and its journalists denied. Last summer, it killed Ismail al-Ghoul in an airstrike that also took the life of another reporter. In March, an Israeli strike killed another Al Jazeera journalist, Hussam Shabat. The strike on Mr. al-Sharif came after Israel's security cabinet on Friday voted to intensify its military operations in the area and to take over Gaza City. Al Jazeera called the strike 'a desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza.' Mourners buried the journalists on Monday. The United Nations human rights office condemned the killing as a grave breach of international law, adding that at least 242 Palestinian journalists had been killed in Gaza since the war began. Despite the rising tensions, Qatar is expected to continue mediating Israel-Hamas talks. Mr. Guzansky said that being a mediator serves Qatar's interests by highlighting the tiny country's importance to international allies, chief among them the United States. Nick Cumming-Bruce contributed reporting from Geneva.
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- Yahoo
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- CNN
U2 members speak out on Gaza: ‘A test of our shared humanity'
The legendary band U2 has always been outspoken about their views and they are now sharing their thoughts about the conflict in Gaza. Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr., took to their official site to post statements condemning the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, speaking out in support of the safe return of the remaining Israeli hostages and calling for access to critical care for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. 'Everyone has long been horrified by what is unfolding in Gaza - but the blocking of humanitarian aid and now plans for a military takeover of Gaza City has taken the conflict into uncharted territory,' their site reads. 'We are not experts in the politics of the region, but we want our audience to know where we each stand.' 'Apart from the attack on the Nova music festival on October 7th, which felt like it happened while U2 were on stage at Sphere Las Vegas, I have generally tried to stay out of the politics of the Middle East,' Bono wrote in his individual statement. 'This was not humility, more uncertainty in the face of obvious complexity,' he added. 'I have over recent months written about the war in Gaza in The Atlantic and spoken about it in The Observer, but I circled the subject.' He went on to write that as 'a cofounder of the ONE Campaign, which tackles AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa, I felt my experience should be on the catastrophes facing that work and that part of the world' before stating that 'there is no hierarchy to such things.' Seeing 'images of starving children on the Gaza Strip' has been deeply grieving, Bono added, given his experience witnessing famine first hand in Ethiopia years ago. 'To witness chronic malnutrition up close would make it personal for any family, especially as it affects children,' he wrote. 'Because when the loss of non-combatant life en masse appears so calculated… especially the deaths of children, then 'evil' is not a hyperbolic adjective… in the sacred text of Jew, Christian, and Muslim it is an evil that must be resisted.' 'As someone who has long believed in Israel's right to exist and supported a two-state solution, I want to make clear to anyone who cares to listen our band's condemnation of [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu's immoral actions and join all who have called for a cessation of hostilities on both sides,' Bono wrote. 'If not Irish voices, please please please stop and listen to Jewish ones.' 'We are all deeply shocked and profoundly grieved by the suffering unfolding in Gaza,' his bandmate, The Edge, wrote. 'What we are witnessing is not a distant tragedy—it is a test of our shared humanity.' 'We know from our own experience in Ireland that peace is not made through dominance,' he continued. 'Peace is made when people sit down with their opponents—when they recognise the equal dignity of all, even those they once feared or despised.' Clayton and Mullen Jr. also shared individual statements, calling for preservation of civilian life and an end to the conflict.
