After Netanyahu apologizes to Qatari PM, Ben Gvir justifies ‘important, just, and supremely moral’ Doha strike

By Lazar Berman

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29 September 2025, 8:07 pm

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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech attend a meeting of the Knesset National Security Committee, September 28, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson/ File)

After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologizes to his Qatari counterpart for the failed strike on Hamas leaders in Doha, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir calls the attack “important, just, and supremely moral.”

Taking to X to call Qatar “an enemy state,” the far-right minister says that “whoever sends monsters to burn babies, rape women, and abduct elderly women must know that there is no place in the world where he is safe.”

“It is time to tell the world the truth: Qatar is a state that supports terrorism, funds terrorism, and incites terrorism,” he continues. “No money will cleanse the terrorism from their hands.”