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Arab and Muslim leaders convened an emergency summit in Doha on Monday to address heightened regional tensions following an unprecedented Israeli attack targeting Hamas officials on Qatari territory. The summit, hosted by the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, brought together leaders from across the Arab and Islamic world, who voiced strong condemnation of the strike and called for a coordinated political and economic response to Israel.

The attack, which targeted a Hamas delegation engaged in peace negotiations with U.S. and Egyptian mediation, was widely perceived by Gulf states as a “serious violation of Qatar’s sovereignty” and a dangerous risk of regional escalation. In response, the summit’s final 25-point statement expressed “absolute support” for Qatar’s security, stability, and sovereignty and condemned Israel for undermining peace efforts in Gaza.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met for some three hours with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday morning.

Attending the meeting were Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Jerusalem’s envoy to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, according to Netanyahu’s office.

“Mr. Secretary, Marco, your visit to our eternal and undivided capital of Jerusalem is a powerful affirmation of a powerful bond,” Netanyahu opened his remarks to the press following the meeting.

Following last week’s Israeli strike targeting Hamas leaders in Doha, US President Donald Trump told reporters Israel must be “very, very careful” about how it handles Qatar, which he called a “great ally.”

In comments at Morristown Airport in New Jersey on Sunday, Trump added that Israel has “to do something about Hamas,” and said Qatar needs to burnish its public image. The brief comments, in response to a reporter’s question, represent the latest time Trump has tried to bridge between condemning the strike on a US ally and saying Hamas’s leaders must be eliminated.

The days since the strike have seen a diplomatic flurry around its fallout. Trump dined with Qatar’s prime minister on Friday, and on Sunday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio landed in Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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US President Donald Trump told reporters that Qatar has been a great ally to the US and that Israel has to be "very careful," in response to a question on Sunday.

Trump was responding to a reporter who asked him what is his message was to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Israel's strikes on Qatar.

Trump answered that Israel has to be "very careful," noting that "they have to do something about Hamas," but that "Qatar has been a great ally to the US. A lot of people don't know that."

The Trump administration is holding a new round of talks with Israeli and Qatari officials in an attempt to restart stalled negotiations over a hostage release agreement, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

Over the weekend, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani visited Washington, where he met with US President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Special Envoy David Witkoff. According to two sources familiar with the talks, US officials stressed the need to “find a proper path” to resume negotiations.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Israel on Sunday for meetings in Jerusalem with top officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“My focus will be on securing the return of hostages, finding ways to make sure humanitarian aid reaches civilians, and addressing the threat posed by Hamas,” said Rubio ahead of his departure.

“Hamas cannot continue to exist if peace in the region is the goal,” he added.

US President Donald Trump held dinner with the Qatari prime minister in New York on Friday, days after US ally Israel attacked Hamas leaders in Doha.

Israel attempted to kill the leaders of the terror group with an attack in Qatar on Tuesday, a strike that risked derailing US-backed efforts to broker a truce in Gaza and end the nearly two-year-old conflict. The attack was widely condemned in the Middle East and beyond as an act that could escalate tensions in a region already on edge.

Trump reportedly expressed annoyance about the strike in a phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as in public, and sought to assure the Qataris that such attacks would not happen again.

The Israel Defense Forces is continuing widescale strikes on Hamas terrorist infrastructure across the Gaza Strip, hitting around 500 targets as part of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots II” amid a ground offensive into Gaza City.

This week, the IDF carried out five waves of strikes in Gaza City, with the first three concentrated on the Daraj Tuffah and al-Furqan neighborhoods, and the last two expanding to al-Shati and deeper into al-Furqan.

As part of the strikes, the IDF said it destroyed observation and sniper posts, buildings containing tunnel shafts, weapons depots and other Hamas assets.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio headed to Israel on Saturday, amid tensions with fellow US allies in the Middle East over Israel's strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar and the expansion of settlements in the West Bank.

Speaking to reporters before departure, Rubio reiterated that the US and President Donald Trump were not happy about the strikes.

Rubio said the US relationship with Israel would not be affected, but that he would discuss with the Israelis how the strike would affect Trump's desire to secure the return of all the hostages held by Hamas, get rid of the terrorist group and end the Gaza war.

The UN General Assembly approved a resolution advanced by France and Saudi Arabia on Friday, which supports the advancement of an "irreversible" path to Palestinian statehood.

The resolution was approved by a majority of 142 countries, with 10 voting against and 12 abstaining, on the "New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution."

The resolution calls for the Palestinian Authority to assume leadership of a Palestinian state with appropriate international support and demands Hamas end its control of Gaza.

Police have arrested a suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus earlier this week – identified by sources as Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah resident.

"I think with a high-degree of certainty, we have him," President Donald Trump revealed on "Fox & Friends" Friday morning. He added that, "essentially, someone who knew him turned him in."

Trump said he hopes the suspect gets the death penalty if found guilty. He also explained how investigators found the suspect — with help from a minister, a member of the U.S. Marshals Service and the suspect's father.

"We have the person that we think is the person we're looking for, but they drove into the police headquarters, and he's there now," Trump said.

Sources told Fox News that Robinson's father played a role in his surrender.

Article 4 allows member countries to bring their security concerns to the alliance for discussion. It states: “The Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.”

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Qatar will host an emergency Arab-Islamic summit in Doha on Sunday and Monday to discuss the Israeli attack on the Gulf state’s capital city that targeted Hamas leaders, according to an invitation received Thursday by Qatar’s news agency.

The unprecedented Israeli airstrike on Tuesday targeted a meeting of Hamas’s top leaders, headlined by Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya, as they were said to be gathered at the group’s political offices in Doha to discuss a new US-sponsored hostage-ceasefire proposal aimed at ending the war in Gaza.

According to Hamas, none of the main leadership members targeted in the strike were killed, and Israel is said to be increasingly pessimistic about the success of the strike but has no definitive intelligence on who was killed.

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The decision to target senior Hamas officials in Qatar was made during a cabinet meeting that extended into Shabbat on January 18, 2025, as Israel was preparing for a second hostage deal. The move was part of a broader package of measures intended to reduce the heavy security costs of releasing hundreds of terrorists as part of the deal.

The goal, according to the discussions, was to launch a series of unconventional operations meant to increase pressure on Hamas until it agreed to surrender and return the hostages. One of these nonconventional measures was the plan to strike Hamas' leadership abroad.

Two other people were questioned yesterday, but neither was determined to be the actual shooter.

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Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA, is dead after being shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University Wednesday.

President Donald Trump confirmed Kirk's death in a post on Truth Social.

Kirk died after he was taken to a hospital in critical condition after being shot Wednesday at a Utah event, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

Video posted from the event appeared to show Kirk being shot as he spoke to the crowd from under a white pop-up tent. After the shot, the crowd dispersed, with onlookers shouting, "Run, run, run!"

Treanor said the shooting happened at about 12:20 p.m.

President Donald Trump offered his condolences to the Kirk family after announcing that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had died after the conservative figure was shot in Utah.

"The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead," Trump said in a social media post on Wednesday. "No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!"

Earlier on Wednesday, Trump called for prayers for Kirk, and described him as a "great guy."

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Poland said a number of Russian drones entered its airspace during an attack on Ukraine early Wednesday and were shot down with the help of NATO allies, a first since Moscow's full-scale invasion of its neighbor.

Leaders across Europe condemned the incident as the latest sign of escalation from the Kremlin, which has rebuffed President Donald Trump's bid to broker peace talks.

Poland's leaders spoke to their European counterparts afterward and Polish President Karol Nawrocki said that he spoke to Trump about the situation on Wednesday afternoon.

The Iranian regime inked an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday to resume cooperation and allow renewed inspections of its nuclear sites under a new framework.

It comes after months of suspension following Iran’s 12-day war with Israel in June, which included Israeli and American attacks on the country’s nuclear infrastructure, and subsequent parliamentary legislation halting collaboration.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and IAEA chief Rafael Grossi signed the deal in Cairo. Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty participated in the meeting.

Israeli officials appeared on Wednesday to increasingly cast doubt on the success of the previous day’s strike in Qatar targeting the leaders of the Hamas terror group’s politburo, with a series of anonymous quotes to Hebrew-language outlets.

The Kan public broadcaster said in an unsourced report that Israel had informed the United States that the chances that the strike had been successful had decreased significantly.

“Right now there’s no indication that the terrorists were killed,” an anonymous source was quoted telling Channel 12 news. “We continue to hope they were assassinated, but optimism is fading.”

A senior Qatari official blasts Israel for conducting a strike on Hamas’s leaders on Qatari soil, saying it came as Doha was working to advance the hostage deal framework crafted last week by US special envoy Steve Witkoff.

“Hamas received the new US proposal from us, which we obtained from Witkoff last week in Paris. Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Abdulrahman Al Thani met with Hamas negotiators yesterday. The Hamas delegation then decided to meet again today to discuss the proposal, traveling from Turkey to Qatar where the strike took place,” the official continues.

French President Macron late Tuesday appointed Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister and tasked him with immediately trying to get the country's fractious political parties to agree on a budget for one of the world's biggest economies.

Lecornu, 39, was the youngest defense minister in French history and architect of a major military buildup through 2030, spurred by Russia’s war in Ukraine. A longtime Macron loyalist, Lecornu is now France's fourth prime minister in barely a year.

A former conservative who joined Macron’s centrist movement in 2017, Lecornu has held posts in local governments, overseas territories and during Macron’s yellow vest “great debate,” when he helped manage mass anger with dialogue. He also offered talks on autonomy during unrest in Guadeloupe in 2021.

US President Donald Trump is tasking his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, with composing a plan for the day after the war in Gaza, Channel 12 reports.

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer met with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Kushner in Miami today to discuss the ceasefire proposal and the US “day after” plan, according to the network, which reported that Kushner is emerging as a central figure in crafting US plans for the future of Gaza.

“Israel will have influence, but it won’t be the Bibi plan or the Dermer plan,” a US official tells Channel 12.

At least six people were murdered and dozens were wounded after terrorists opened fire on civilians at Ramot Junction in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem on Monday morning.

The terrorists boarded the Line 62 bus in Jerusalem, which operates across the city, and began shooting at passengers.

In response to the attack, a soldier and several civilians at the bus stop engaged the attackers and returned fire. The terrorists were killed at the scene.

The IDF launched a large-scale brigade operation to thwart West Bank terrorism in the Menashe Brigade, alongside searches for the suspects who carried out the attack at the Ramot Junction on Monday morning, the military said. 

On Sunday night, the IDF and Border Police operated deep inside the villages in the Marj Sanur Valley area, as well as the Fara'a refugee camp and Kabatiya in the West Bank, aimed at dismantling terrorist activity in the area, the IDF added. 

Initial Palestinian reports indicated that one of the two terrorists who carried out the attack was Muthna Omar, 20, whose father was arrested in a recent IDF operation.