Qatar says its ruling emir spoke to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio about defense cooperation and the “consequences of the Israeli attack on Doha.”
Majed al-Ansari, a spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, gives the readout of the talks between Rubio and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
The two men also spoke about mediation efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, he adds. However, al-Ansari harshly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the attack last week on Doha that killed six people.
“If Prime Minister Netanyahu wants peace, he knew the road to peace a long time ago. He just decided not to go through it, and he decided to mediate in bad faith,” al-Ansari says. “And therefore, the questions about the fate of their mediation should be asked of he who is bombing the mediators and those who he is talking with on the negotiating table.”
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