‘Gaza is not there anymore’: Qatar PM blasts Israel, international community at Davos forum
Qatar’s prime minister offered stinging criticism of Israel and the international community this morning over the ongoing Israeli war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who also serves as Qatar’s foreign minister, said a two-state solution was required to end the conflict and warned that Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack and the Israeli response showed the region could not go back to the way it was before.
“Gaza is not there anymore. I mean, there is nothing over there,” he said, speaking in Davos, Switzerland. “It’s carpet bombing everywhere.”
He also brought up the ongoing tensions in the occupied West Bank, which has seen Palestinians killed as well by Israeli security forces, and urged for an end to Palestinian divisions.
“We cannot have a two-state solution without having a government and politicians in Israel who believe in coexisting together side by side peacefully and we cannot have all this ongoing without ending this war,” he said.
He warned that a military confrontation in the Mideast waterways “will not contain” the attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels who on Monday fired a missile, striking a U.S.-owned ship just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden.
“What we have right now in the region is a recipe of escalation everywhere,” Sheikh Mohammed added.
Iraq and U.S. condemn Iran strikes on Erbil
Iraq labeled Iran’s attacks on the city of Erbil “an aggression” against its sovereignty and security, and has recalled its ambassador from Tehran in response.
The country’s foreign ministry said in a statement on X that Iran targeted “residential places with ballistic missiles,” which led to casualties among civilians. The Kurdistan Region Security Council said in a statement that 4 civilians were killed in Erbil and six others were injured as the result of the attack. NBC News could not verify the…
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