White House confirms Trump and Witkoff will dine tonight with Qatari PM

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12 September 2025, 9:41 pm

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Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

Left to right: US President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff at a Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, New York, October 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a government meeting in Nahariya on December 3, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO); Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani attends a meeting in Egypt's new administrative capital on November 27, 2024. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

US President Donald Trump will meet Qatar’s prime minister on Friday after an Israeli strike on Hamas in the Gulf state, a key US partner, the White House says.

Trump and his special envoy Steve Witkoff “will be having dinner” with Mohammed Abdulrahman Al Thani, it says in a brief statement.