A UN official on Thursday condemned an Israeli strike against members of Hamas in Doha, describing it as an “alarming escalation” that threatens ongoing negotiations to “broker a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza.”

Israeli fighter jets carried out a strike against Hamas and its negotiating team on September 9, targeting a residential compound in Doha, the capital of Qatar. Hamas said that five of its members had been killed, in addition to a Qatari security official, but that the strike had not harmed any of its leadership. Israel claimed responsibility for the strike, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stating that it was a “wholly independent Israeli operation” carried out in response to a Hamas attack in Jerusalem on September 8. The attack came in the midst of m

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