Qatar PM urges world to reject double requirements and punish Israel

Qatar’s Prime Minister urged the worldwide neighborhood on Sunday (September 14, 2025) to reject “double requirements” and maintain Israel accountable, talking on the eve of an emergency summit known as in response to an unprecedented Israeli strike on Hamas members in Doha.

The lethal assault — carried out by one U.S. ally on the territory of one other — sparked a wave of criticism, together with a rebuke from President Donald Trump, who nonetheless dispatched Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Israel in a present of assist.

Monday’s (September 15, 2025) emergency gathering of Arab and Islamic leaders will function a pointed present of unity amongst Gulf nations and search to pile extra strain on Israel, which is already going through mounting calls to convey an finish to the battle and humanitarian disaster in Gaza.

“The time has come for the worldwide neighborhood to cease utilizing double requirements and to punish Israel for all of the crimes it has dedicated,” Qatari premier Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani advised a preparatory assembly on Sunday (September 14, 2025), including Israel’s “battle of extermination” in Gaza wouldn’t succeed.

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“What is encouraging Israel to proceed… is the silence, the lack of the worldwide neighborhood to carry it accountable.”

Among the leaders anticipated at Monday’s (September 15, 2025) summit are Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas arrived in Doha on Sunday (September 14, 2025).

It stays to be seen whether or not Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, will attend the gathering, although he visited Qatar earlier this week in a present of neighbourly solidarity.

According to Qatar’s international ministry spokesman, Majed al-Ansari, Monday’s (September 15, 2025) assembly will take into account “a draft decision on the Israeli assault on the State of Qatar”.

‘Rein in Israel’

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan advised Al Jazeera on Sunday (September 14, 2025) that the query of Israel’s behaviour “is now not only a Palestine-Israel situation”.

“The greatest drawback proper now could be Israeli expansionism within the area,” he stated.

“Arab and Islamic nations should come collectively and discover a resolution primarily based on this newly outlined drawback,” he added.

Elham Fakhro, a fellow of Harvard’s Middle East Initiative, stated she anticipated Gulf states to “use the summit to name on Washington to rein in Israel”.

“They may even search stronger U.S. safety ensures on the idea that Israel’s actions expose the inadequacy of present assurances and have undermined U.S. credibility as a safety accomplice,” she added.

Middle East lecturer Karim Bitar, of Paris’ Sciences Po University, known as the gathering a “litmus check” for Arab and Muslim leaders, saying a lot of their constituents had been “sick and bored with the old-style communiques”.

“What they’re anticipating as we speak is that these nations… ship a vital sign not solely to Israel but in addition to the United States that point has come for the worldwide neighborhood to cease giving this clean examine to Israel,” he stated.

Qatar hosts the most important U.S. navy base within the area and performs a key mediation function within the Israel-Hamas battle, alongside the United States and Egypt.

Sheikh Mohammed had dinner on Friday (September 12, 2025) with President Trump whereas visiting the United States.

Hamas politburo member Bassem Naim stated the militant motion, whose October 2023 assault on Israel sparked the Gaza battle, hoped the summit would produce “a decisive and unified Arab-Islamic place”.