Israel carried out an attack targeting Hamas leadership in Qatar on Tuesday, in an unprecedented strike on a key mediator in the Gaza conflict that threatened to derail renewed peace efforts and further inflame tensions in the region.
A senior Israeli official told CNN that among those targeted was Hamas’ chief negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya. “We are awaiting the results of the strike,” the official said.
Hamas said later Tuesday that the strike killed five members but failed to assassinate the negotiating delegation. Al-Hayya was not listed among the dead, but his son and the director of his office were killed in the strike, Hamas said.
Qatar and Hamas both said that a Qatari security official died in the strike, as well.
The Qatari foreign ministry’s spokesperson, Majed Al Ansari, said “the cowardly Israeli attack” targeted residential buildings housing several members of the Hamas political bureau in Doha.
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