Qatar asks Netanyahu to be brought to justice

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Ben Abdelrahman Al Thani demanded, Wednesday, September 11, that Benjamin Netanyahu “be brought to justice”, accusing him of “killed all hope” of the hostage liberation still detained in Gaza. This declaration comes in the day after unpublished Israeli strikes on Doha, aimed at Hamas officials. A first in the Gulf that shakes mediation efforts. Qatar, which has been hosting the Palestinian Movement Bureau since 2012, has announced “reassess” its participation in Truce talks and promised a “collective response”.

Increasingly qualified as a rogue state for its repeated violations of international law, Israel sinks into a logic of total war. By hitting a sovereign third country, it violated the United Nations Charter and committed an act assimilable to a war crime, according to lawyers of international law. This attack is added to the deadly offensives already carried out in Lebanon, Syria or Yemen, drawing the portrait of an Israeli power ready to burn the whole region to impose its force policy.

Israel openly claims these strikes. The Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant assured that the army “would act against his enemies everywhere”, while Netanyahu threatened Qatar to “hold responsible” the leaders of Hamas present on his soil. Washington, caught, expressed his disagreement with this operation. These strikes, which would have killed six people according to Hamas, constitute a new blow to the efforts of truce and aggravate an already explosive regional instability, reinforcing calls for international sanctions and prosecutions for war crimes.