{"id":247,"date":"2025-12-08T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:43:43","slug":"qatar-denies-funding-hamas-says-wont-pay-for-destruction-caused-by-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/qatar-denies-funding-hamas-says-wont-pay-for-destruction-caused-by-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar denies funding Hamas, says won&#8217;t pay for destruction caused by Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Qatar\u2019s prime minister says aid to Gaza is humanitarian, coordinated with Washington and successive Israeli governments <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Qatar\u2019s prime minister on Sunday rejected accusations that Doha finances Hamas, saying that his country will not pay for the destruction caused by Israeli attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during a newsmaker interview with US commentator Tucker Carlson at the Doha Forum 2025, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said Qatar\u2019s engagement with Hamas began more than a decade ago at Washington\u2019s request to facilitate mediation and ceasefire channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe starting of the relationship with Hamas\u2026 was started back more than 10 years\u2026 at the request of the United States,\u201d he said. The group\u2019s office in Doha, he added, \u201cwas used only for the communication and to facilitate ceasefire, facilitating aid to Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheikh Mohammed, who is also a foreign minister, said claims that Qatar bankrolls Hamas are unfounded and ignore the multilayered oversight structure that governed aid transfers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, when they are claiming that this is the financing of Qatar to Hamas, it has no basis,\u201d he said. \u201cAll our aid\u2026 went to Gaza, went to the people, and was under a very transparent process that the United States is fully aware about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said successive Israeli governments and their security institutions approved and coordinated the delivery of aid to Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said political attacks targeting Qatar misrepresent its role as a mediator seeking to ease humanitarian suffering and broker ceasefires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have seen a lot of efforts ongoing for years now based on disinformation and spreading lies and false information about Qatar in order to hurt the relationship between Qatar and the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed that Qatar will continue humanitarian support for Palestinians but will not pay to rebuild the destruction caused by Israeli military operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will continue supporting the Palestinian people. We will do whatever to alleviate their suffering, but we are not the ones who are going to write the check to rebuild what others destroy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s basically our position. But also, we will not let the Palestinian people drive; they are not helped, or they are not funded,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A ceasefire, mediated by T\u00fcrkiye, Egypt, and Qatar, and backed by the US, took effect on Oct. 10, halting a two-year Israeli war that has killed more than 70,000 people, mostly women and children, and injured nearly 171,000 others since October 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Qatar\u2019s prime minister says aid to Gaza is humanitarian, coordinated with Washington and successive Israeli governments<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conflict-zones"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}