Qatar’s International Media office denied reports that the nation provided funding for Hamas in Gaza in the form of “humanitarian aid” in an official statement on Friday, claiming that “these allegations are being promoted by elements of Israel’s far right and political figures in an attempt to deflect attention from domestic political failures and portray Qatar as a convenient scapegoat.”
The report in question was published earlier on Friday by Ronen Bergman of the Israeli media outlet Yediot Aharonot. Bergman claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned repeatedly in 2019 that Qatari funds were being used to fund Hamas’s military
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