Report: Two senior Hamas officials were wounded in strike in Qatar, one seriously

The Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reports that two senior Hamas officials, members of the organization’s political bureau, were wounded in yesterday’s strike on the Palestinian terror group’s headquarters in Qatar.

The report does not specify their names, but it claims that one of them was seriously injured and that both are hospitalized in a private hospital under strict security.

The newspaper further reports that the area of the headquarters that sustained the heaviest damage and was struck four times was the office of Hamas leader in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya, and that Hamas officials had gathered in the former office of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed by Israel in 2024 while in Tehran.

According to the report, one bomb fell in Haniyeh’s office, and Hamas officials sitting in a distant corner of the office from the point of impact were injured, but not killed.

The report also notes that a possible reason the officials were not killed is that Israel relied on phone geolocation when carrying out the strike, while Hamas officials, during such meetings, do not bring their phones inside but leave them in their offices or with advisers.