Reports say Hamas top leaders were in Doha building hit by strike including Khalil al-Hayya, Khaled Mashaal

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9 September 2025, 4:51 pm

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Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent

From left to right: Hamas West Bank leader Zaher Jabarin, the chairman of the group's consultative council Mohammed Ismail Darwish, known as Abu Omar Hassan, and senior official Khaled Mashaal receive condolences during the funeral of the terror group's top leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Qatari capital Doha on August 2, 2024. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Arab media reports say Hamas’s top leaders were all present when the building they were in was hit by an Israeli airstrike.

Among the members of the delegation attacked at the Hamas headquarters in Doha was the Hamas leader in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya.

Also believed to have been present at the headquarters during the strike were senior Hamas figures: Zaher Jabarin, who leads Hamas in the West Bank, Muhammad Darwish, head of Hamas’s Shura Council, and Khaled Mashaal, head of Hamas abroad.