The price of mediation? How Qatar could respond to Israel’s attack | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Doha, Qatar – The sight of plumes of smoke in the aftermath of Israeli bombings have become commonplace across the Middle East in recent months – but in the skyline of Qatar’s glitzy capital, it was wholly unprecedented.

Israel’s attack on Doha on Tuesday – the sixth country it has attacked this year – appeared to target the Palestinian group Hamas’s negotiating team, who were speculated at the time to be on the brink of closing a ceasefire deal for Gaza.