Qatar condemns Israel's attack in Doha targetting Hamas leaders
Newshour
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Hamas claims its leadership team survived the strike, but it says six people were killed, including one member of the Qatari security forces. We'll hear reaction from Israel, Qatar and the United States.
Also on the programme: There have been arson attacks and vandalism in several cities as protests escalate in Nepal despite the resignation of the prime minister; and we'll hear from Jung Chang, the author of the bestselling memoir 'Wild Swans', on the release of the sequel.
(Photo: Smoke rises after several blasts were heard in Doha, Qatar on September 9, 2025. Credit: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service with me, Sean Lay, coming to live from London this hour. |
| 0:16.7 | Qatar has condemned this attack in Doha by Israel, targeted at Hamas officials based there. |
| 0:25.1 | Israel says it was a response in part in retaliation for the attack by Guman in Jerusalem on Monday, |
| 0:30.8 | in which six people were killed. |
| 0:32.7 | Earlier today, Newsauer heard from Shami, a Filipino woman who was close to a building targeted in the attack. |
| 0:39.3 | I was in my room and then I heard a loud bang three times before I go outside. |
| 0:45.3 | And then when I go outside, so a lot of birds on the sky coming from the other side. |
| 0:51.6 | I was really nervous. I locked the door because I'm alone. So I lock everything. I'm scared. |
| 0:59.2 | I don't know what's happening and I don't know where the loudbound came from. We are living in there and |
| 1:04.4 | where it happened. That's why we can clearly hear the loud brown of the bombs. |
| 1:10.6 | The son of Hamas's exiled Gaza chief Khalil Al-Haya was killed in the attack, along with four other members. |
| 1:16.8 | Al-Haya himself has been one of the groups negotiating team in Hamas. |
| 1:20.4 | A Qatari police officer also died. |
| 1:22.8 | This was Israeli Prime Minister Beniman Nautenyao's explanation. |
| 1:26.9 | At noon today, I convened the heads of Israel's security organizations |
| 1:29.9 | and authorized a surgical precision strike on the terrorist chiefs of Hamas. |
| 1:36.9 | These are the same terrorists who planned, terrorist chiefs who planned, launched, |
| 1:43.2 | and celebrated the horrific massacres of October 7th. |
| 1:47.3 | Benny Minnetta on Yahoo. |
| 1:48.9 | Well, about an hour ago, the BBC Chief International Congressman Lees Sousset came into the Newshouse studio with her analysis. |
| 1:56.1 | Well, let's take what the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, was very quick to say. He seemed shocked when the news |
| 2:02.8 | came into him, as it did to all of us, that Israel had carried out a direct threat on the territory |
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