President Trump has signed an government order saying that any armed assault towards Qatar could be thought-about “a risk to the peace and safety of the US.”
“Within the occasion of such an assault, the US shall take all lawful and applicable measures — together with diplomatic, financial, and, if essential, army — to defend the pursuits of the US and of the State of Qatar and to revive peace and stability,” reads the manager order, which was dated Monday, Sept. 29.
A Qatari official confirmed to CBS Information on Wednesday that the Trump administration’s transfer to grant the small Gulf state the uncommon promise of U.S. army backup within the occasion of an assault on its territory got here in response to Israel bombing Qatar’s capital, Doha, on Sept. 9.
Israel mentioned its assault was aimed toward Hamas leaders gathered within the Qatari capital, the place the U.S.- and Israeli-designated terrorist group has lengthy maintained a political workplace.
Qatar hosts the most important U.S. army base within the Center East, the Al-Udeid Air Base, the place 1000’s of American forces are stationed. The USA already classifies Qatar as a Main Non-NATO Ally, a designation that was accepted by President Biden.
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The manager order was signed within the wake of Israel’s assault on Doha, and as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington to satisfy with Mr. Trump.
Whereas that go to was largely targeted on Mr. Trump’s announcement of a still-pending proposal for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire settlement to finish the conflict in Gaza, it additionally noticed Netanyahu apologize to Qatar for the strike in Doha.
“As a primary step, Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed his deep remorse that Israel’s missile strike towards Hamas targets in Qatar unintentionally killed a Qatari serviceman,” a White Home readout of a trilateral cellphone name with Mr. Trump, Netanyahu and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, mentioned.
Netanyahu “additional expressed remorse that, in focusing on Hamas management throughout hostage negotiations, Israel violated Qatari sovereignty and affirmed that Israel is not going to conduct such an assault once more sooner or later,” the White Home mentioned.
The Israeli assault shocked the Qataris and raised questions on Qatar’s safety relationship with the US.
Netanyahu, simply a number of days after the strikes in Doha, threatened to launch new assaults on Qatar if it refused to eject Hamas political representatives.
The Israeli chief made the remarks after Mr. Trump mentioned in a social media publish that “eliminating” Hamas was “a worthy purpose,” however that he had spoken with leaders in Qatar and warranted the nation’s prime minister, “that such a factor is not going to occur once more on their soil.”
Margaret Brennan and
Tucker Reals
contributed to this report.
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