Welcome back. I'm Ian Masters, and this is Background Briefing, available 24-7 at

Background Briefing.org. And joining us now with Dawid Khatab, who is an award-winning Palestinian

journalist, media activist and TV producer, active in media freedom efforts in the Middle East.

He's a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, and in 2000, he established

the Arab world's first internet radio station

Amman Net, and he's the author of State of Palestine now and has an article at the New Republic.

The world is recognizing Palestine.

The U.S. is banning its leader.

Welcome to Background Briefing, Dawood Katab.

Thank you for having me. Well, thanks for joining us, and you're in Jordan,

where the Jordan's foreign minister has condemned the Israeli strike on a residence or a hotel,

I guess it was, in Qatar, where the Hamas delegation were actually looking at the latest U.S. proposals

when they were struck.

It's a pretty extraordinary thing to do because of the fact that the United States has its huge airbase there and military base in Qatar.

Apparently, the Israelis informed the United States that they're about to attack Qatar, and supposedly Whitkoff, who was told about it, passed

this word on to Qatar, and I'm not sure whether they in turn warned Hamas, it would seem to be something likely.

But at this point, what do we know about the casualties?

If they tried to strike the Hamas leadership, according to Hamas, they only got the chief negotiators,

the latest Hamas leader's son, Halila Al-Haya, and a couple of other people,

but not the top leadership. So what do you know about the casualties in this Israeli strike?

Well, it's not clear. Hamas has promised to issue a statement shortly and the key leaders as you said

apparently have been spared but you know the whole idea is reminds you of the

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