President Donald Trump hosted a call between the leaders of two of America’s Middle East allies on Monday. During the call, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman for an Israeli attack on Hamas leadership in Qatar.
A White House readout of the call says, “The President expressed his desire to put Israeli-Qatar relations on a positive track after years of mutual grievances and miscommunications.”
“Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed his deep regret that Israel’s missile strike against Hamas targets in Qatar unintentionally killed a Qatari serviceman.” It adds, ”He further expressed regret that, in targeting Hamas leadership during hostage negotiations, Israel violated Qatari sovereignty and affirmed that Israel will not conduct such an attack again in the future.”
President Donald J. Trump hosts a trilateral phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani of Qatar in the Oval Office. pic.twitter.com/ekbKg3WDZQ
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 29, 2025
Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the call was “part of US efforts to address the repercussions of the Israeli aggression that targeted a residential neighbourhood in Doha city, which included housing for the Hamas negotiating delegation, resulting in a blatant violation of the sovereignty of the State of Qatar.”
“For his part, the Israeli Prime Minister apologised during the call for the attack and the violation of Qatari sovereignty, which resulted in the martyrdom of Qatari citizen Badr Al-Dosari, pledging not to repeat any targeting of Qatari territory in the future,” the statement from Doha added.
The account of the phone call from Tel Aviv said Netanyahu expressed regret that the strike killed a Qatari citizen. “Mr. Prime Minister, I want you to know that Israel regrets that one of your citizens was killed in our strike. I want to assure you that Israel was targeting Hamas, not Qataris,” the Israeli Prime Minister’s account posted on X.
“I also want to assure you that Israel has no plan to violate your sovereignty again in the future, and I have made that commitment to the president.” It continues, “I know your leadership has grievances against Israel and Israel has grievances against Qatar, from support for the Muslim Brotherhood to how Israel is portrayed on Al Jazeera to support for anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Phone Call with the Qatari Prime Minister:
Mr. Prime Minister, I want you to know that Israel regrets that one of your citizens was killed in our strike.
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) September 29, 2025
On September 9, Israel fired ten missiles at a building in Doha in an attempt to assassinate the group’s leadership. Top members of Hamas were meeting to discuss a ceasefire proposal made by Trump. While Hamas leaders survived the attack, six people were killed.
Qatar slammed Israel for the attack and said it killed the chances of Hamas and Tel Aviv reaching a deal to release the Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
