Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., heads to Israel after Israeli forces struck Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar.
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., is traveling to Israel following the Jewish State’s strike in Qatar, a strike he argued was part of Israel’s « singular purpose » to eradicate Hamas.
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) announced the strike, which was intended to target senior-level leadership in Hamas, on Tuesday. However, the attack took place over 1,300 miles away in Doha, Qatar.
The Qatari government has been a key player at the negotiation table in the quest for a ceasefire and return of hostages in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas following the group’s brutal attack on Oct. 7, 2023. Israel’s targets were top negotiators in Hamas’ political bureau, who were mulling the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal.
So far, Qatari officials have condemned the strike, and the White House has taken a rare step against Israel in the aftermath.
Daines, who is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, likened Hamas to « a cancer » that Israel needed to eradicate. He put the Jewish State’s situation into perspective of, if the U.S. were in Israel’s position and « 1,200 innocent Americans [were] slaughtered by terrorists 40 miles from Washington, D.C. », then the « United States would do everything within its power to eradicate the threat.
