![Plumes of smoke rise into the sky after Israeli warplanes launch an airstrike on senior Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital Doha, in a new blow to efforts to reach a Gaza ceasefire deal, on September 9, 2025. [Ali Altunkaya - Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AA-20250909-39067509-39067508-ISRAEL_LAUNCHES_AIRSTRIKE_ON_HAMAS_LEADERS_IN_QATARI_CAPITAL-1-1.jpg)
Since the beginning of the Gaza war in October 2023, Israel has crossed lines that were never meant to be crossed. The direct confrontation between Israel and Iran in 2025 had been hanging in the air for more than 35 years, but it never happened until now. And the bold Israeli decision to eliminate Hezbollah’s leadership once and for all was also born during this war as well, a move that until then was never really on the table. Well, the total elimination of Hezbollah has not yet been successfully executed, but Tel Aviv and Washington are clearly investing heavily in it. Israel’s unprecedented military operation against Qatar to assassinate Hamas’s top political leadership was the most recent of these […]
