Israel strikes senior Hamas leaders in Qatar
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Israel has carried out a strike in the Qatari capital, Doha, targeting the senior leadership of Hamas. They are said to have been holding a meeting to discuss the latest Gaza ceasefire proposal. It's reported that Khalil al-Hayya, the lead negotiator for Hamas, was among those targeted. Also in the programme: The Nepalese Prime Minister has resigned after public outrage over the killing of 19 anti-corruption protesters on Monday. Demonstrations have continued with reports of fires in the parliament building and elsewhere.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.7 | We're coming to you live from London. I'm Paul Henley, and we start with a story developing currently. |
| 0:13.0 | Israel has carried out a strike on the Qatari capital, Doha, targeting the senior leadership of Hamas. |
| 0:20.5 | They're reported to have been holding a meeting to discuss the latest Gaza ceasefire proposal. |
| 0:25.5 | Newsauer has been talking to a witness to these attacks. |
| 0:28.8 | Shami is a local Filipino resident who heard the explosions. |
| 0:33.5 | First, I was in my room, and then I heard a loud bang like a few times before I go outside. |
| 0:42.5 | And then when I go outside, so a lot of birds on the sky coming from the other side. |
| 0:51.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:52.5 | At first, I don't know which site is from, but I said on this |
| 0:58.6 | in it from around West Bay, or Patara. So I was really nervous that I locked the door |
| 1:07.4 | because I'm alone. We all left the house, so I lock everything as I'm scared. |
| 1:16.6 | I don't know what's happening and I don't know where the loudbound |
| 1:20.6 | bonds came from. |
| 1:21.6 | We are living in the purg, so it's like it's a very near where it happened. |
| 1:32.2 | That's why we can clearly hear the loud brown of the bombs. |
| 1:35.8 | The words there of Shami, a Filipino resident of Doha, |
| 1:39.0 | who lives not far from where these Israeli strikes happened. |
| 1:42.4 | Let's talk live to our correspondent Paul Adams. |
| 1:44.8 | He's in Jerusalem, abreast of this story. |
| 1:49.5 | It's confirmed by the Israeli armed forces it was them attacking, is it Paul? |
| 1:58.8 | Absolutely, and this confirmation came literally within minutes of the first reports of explosions in Doha. |
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