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2025-09-09 Terror Networks

Explosions in the heart of Doha: IDF strikes senior Hamas leaders in Qatar in first

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Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-09-09 09:20|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1866 views ] Top
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1 HotAir: BREAKING: Israel Hits Hamas Meeting -- In Qatar; UPDATE: Trump Green-Lit Op? UPDATE: Qataris Condemn''

Posted by Frank G 2025-09-09 10:30|| 2025-09-09 10:30|| Front Page Top

2 wouldn't be surprised if Qatar actually greenlighted this (despite their public denunciation) as Qatar has lost a huge amount of money funding Hamas and then being doublecrossed. Maybe they would rather be done with them.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-09-09 10:31|| 2025-09-09 10:31|| Front Page Top

3 ^ Clarice Feldman on FB:
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🚨 Breaking: Initial reports that Qatar 🇶🇦 government assisted Israel 🇮🇱 in elimination of H×mas leaders in its capital, Doha.
Qatari government assembled all H×mas leaders in the same location "to discuss latest ceasefire proposal", allowing Israel Air Force to eliminate them.
---Other noted Qatar has very fine aerial detection systems and could not have missed the IAF overflights

Posted by Frank G 2025-09-09 10:48|| 2025-09-09 10:48|| Front Page Top

4 More cover here :- https://somalista.com/israel-attacks-qatar/

Posted by Somalista News 2025-09-09 11:01|| Somalista.com 2025-09-09 11:01|| Front Page Top

5 Someone getting tired of the Same Old S$$$?

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-09-09 11:10|| 2025-09-09 11:10|| Front Page Top

6 Oil Spikes As Explosions Rock Doha; Israel Targets Top Hamas Leaders In Assassination Operation

Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-09 11:40|| 2025-09-09 11:40|| Front Page Top

7 The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange ended the trading day with a 1.8% increase, with two leading indices, TA-35 and TA-125, setting new records. The TA-35 rose by 1.8% reaching 3,133.78 points, while TA-125 increased by 1.7%, reaching 3,204.15 points. The increases in both indices and the market overall intensified following reports of the Israeli attack against Hamas leaders in Doha.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-09-09 11:53|| 2025-09-09 11:53|| Front Page Top

8 #2 and #3, even if it's not true, a rumor like that could spark infighting or at least distrust among the Arab brethren which would also work toward Israel's advantage.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-09-09 11:57|| 2025-09-09 11:57|| Front Page Top

9 ^Kinda the misinformation equivalent of exploding pagers....

Posted by Mercutio 2025-09-09 12:19|| 2025-09-09 12:19|| Front Page Top

10 The moment Israel bombs Hamas leaders as they discuss Trump's Gaza ceasefire deal in Qatar: Building blows up as IDF unleashes Operation Summit of Fire, sparking fury across Middle East

Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-09 14:29|| 2025-09-09 14:29|| Front Page Top

11 Oh no! Fury across the Middle East! However will Israel cope???

Posted by trailing wife 2025-09-09 14:46|| 2025-09-09 14:46|| Front Page Top

12 Time for Arabs to learn FEAR?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-09-09 15:37|| 2025-09-09 15:37|| Front Page Top

13 Operation Summit of Fire? What that be a 'comes to Moses' meeting?

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-09-09 15:48|| 2025-09-09 15:48|| Front Page Top

14 Dammit, I was hoping it was more toilet bombs.

Posted by Silentbrick 2025-09-09 16:10|| 2025-09-09 16:10|| Front Page Top

15 White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that Israel’s airstrike on Hamas terrorists in Doha, Qatar, earlier in the day was “unfortunate,” but that killing terrorists was a “worthy goal.”

Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-09 17:46|| 2025-09-09 17:46|| Front Page Top

16 Understand the MSM western spin on this. If you follow the Arabic, BRICs, African press they are almost all taking the line that the IDF deliberately assassinated the negotiating team. That would presumably make the Western negotiating teams valid targets. That first impression will resonate - whether “true” or not. Violating Qatari airspace to make the hit - an air strike on a technically neutral country - is an act of war under any number of protocols. Since the US (and the UK) very visibly assisted Israel in defending against Houthi and Iranian missiles and drones, it will be easy for folks with preconceived notions to believe this was in fact vetted by TPTB.

I’ve been an Israel supporter for 40 years but this and other recent strikes on Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq etc in the past couple months really have me wondering about the longer term effects of their actions. While they decapitate the current leadership of their opponents they are certainly going to inspire escalation of the survivors and succeeding generations not to compromise and more importantly not to trust any truce offers in future.

The Sampson option seems more likely daily based on the continued ratcheting up of operations. If that’s the impression of one of their supporters I can only imagine what is running through the minds of their adversaries

Posted by Gloluns Turkeyneck4904 2025-09-09 18:05|| 2025-09-09 18:05|| Front Page Top

17 Someone is definitely losing their security deposit on that AirBnB.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2025-09-09 18:24|| 2025-09-09 18:24|| Front Page Top

18 The press is going to be hysterical no matter what. No mention of air defense is a tell that Qatar, at the very least, knew about it if not actively helped. Of course they denounced the strike. Arab Solidarity, and all that. (F11 on the press release template)

Looking at a map of how the Israelis could get to downtown Doha implies other players were in on it, too. Unless they launched off an aircraft carrier.

Hamas overplayed their hand with the 7-Oct massacre that put the IDF into a fix it once-and-for-all mode, thus spoiling the Palestinian Grift which has been running successfully for decades. It's not just NGOs and the UN making money. Regimes need enemies to distract their population. Even better if you can get some stooges to fight said enemies so you don't have to draft your surly population. Now the Arabs will have to find another tool to annoy the Juice.

(Note: An alternative explanation for the lack of air defense is Jewish Space Lasers. Mazel Tough!)

Posted by SteveS 2025-09-09 18:51|| 2025-09-09 18:51|| Front Page Top

19 inspire escalation of the survivors and succeeding generations not to compromise and more importantly not to trust any truce offers in future.

Hamas has not yet compromised in any way whatsoever, Gloluns Turkeyneck4904. All the truces got them pauses in the fighting — during which they were rested, fed via Israel, and rearmed via Egypt. The plan on the Arab side was clearly to keep the game going indefinitely, at no point giving up the final hostage, at no point giving up their arms or walking away from their fight against the IDF — with the final goal of reconquering the entirety of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, rendering it all Judenfrei.

The IDF hinted Hamas leaders in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon and Iran, Iranian leaders in Syria and Iran, and now Hamas leaders in Doha. The next step is to hunt Hamas leaders in Turkey, at which point all involved will understand they have nowhere to hide any longer.

There are slightly fewer than a 250,000 Persian Jews in Israel, and on the order of 150,000 Turkish Jews; neither population romanticizes their former neighbours. That’s a nice sized pool of potential spies and saboteurs for the Mossad to have been drawing from for quite some time. All sorts of interesting things are no doubt set up by now.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-09-09 19:23|| 2025-09-09 19:23|| Front Page Top

20 Sorry — the IDF hunted, not hinted. PIMF!!!

Posted by trailing wife 2025-09-09 20:07|| 2025-09-09 20:07|| Front Page Top

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