{"id":15311,"date":"2024-11-09T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T14:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15311"},"modified":"2024-11-09T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T14:59:18","slug":"qatar-agrees-to-kick-hamas-out-of-doha-following-us-request-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15311","title":{"rendered":"Qatar agrees to kick Hamas out of Doha following US request, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Qatar agreed in recent weeks to kick Hamas out of its country following a request from the US to do so, capping off months of failed attempts to try to get the militant group \u2013 whose top leaders reside in the Qatari capital of Doha \u2013 to accept a ceasefire and hostage release deal in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/07\/middleeast\/jabalya-gaza-israel-strike-intl\/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Israel-Hamas war<\/a>, US and Qatari sources told CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With efforts to pause the war \u2013 which has been a top priority for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/joe-biden?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President Joe Biden<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 firmly stalled, US officials informed their Qatari counterparts about two weeks ago that they must stop giving Hamas refuge in their capital; Qatar agreed and gave Hamas notice about a week ago, sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHamas is a terrorist group that has killed Americans and continues to hold Americans hostage,\u201d a senior administration official told CNN. \u201cAfter rejecting repeated proposals to release hostages, its leaders should no longer be welcome in the capitals of any American partner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the course of the war and negotiations to bring the hostages home, US officials have asked Qatar to use the threat of expulsion as leverage in their talks with Hamas. The final impetus for Qatar agreeing to kick Hamas out came recently after the death of American-Israeli hostage&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/01\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-hostage-polin-goldberg-profile-intl-hnk\/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hersh Goldberg-Polin<\/a>&nbsp;and Hamas\u2019 rejection of yet another ceasefire proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qatar has been a major player in efforts over the past year to try to secure a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, in no small part because senior members of the militant group are based in Doha. Major negotiations have taken place in the Qatari capital for that reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exactly when Hamas operatives would be exiled out of Qatar \u2013 and where they would go \u2013 are unclear.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/qatar-agrees-kick-hamas-doha-232635018.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/qatar-agrees-kick-hamas-doha-232635018.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Qatar agreed in recent weeks to kick Hamas out of its country following a request from the US to do so, capping off months of failed attempts to try to get the militant group \u2013 whose top leaders reside in the Qatari capital of Doha \u2013 to accept a ceasefire and hostage release deal in the Israel-Hamas war, US and Qatari sources told CNN.<br \/>\nWith efforts to pause the war \u2013 which has been a top priority for President Joe Biden \u2013 firmly stalled, US officials informed their Qatari counterparts about two weeks ago that they must stop giving Hamas refuge in their capital; Qatar agreed and gave Hamas notice about a week ago, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamas is a terrorist group that has killed Americans and continues to hold Americans hostage,\u201d a senior administration official told CNN. \u201cAfter rejecting repeated proposals to release hostages, its leaders should no longer be welcome in the capitals of any American partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the course of the war and negotiations to bring the hostages home, US officials have asked Qatar to use the threat of expulsion as leverage in their talks with Hamas. The final impetus for Qatar agreeing to kick Hamas out came recently after the death of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Hamas\u2019 rejection of yet another ceasefire proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar has been a major player in efforts over the past year to try to secure a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, in no small part because senior members of the militant group are based in Doha. Major negotiations have taken place in the Qatari capital for that reason.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly when Hamas operatives would be exiled out of Qatar \u2013 and where they would go \u2013 are unclear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/qatar-agrees-kick-hamas-doha-232635018.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[375,272,355,1301,314,780,391,1781,108,115],"class_list":["post-15311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-biden","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-hamas","tag-international-relations","tag-joe-biden","tag-middle-east","tag-qatar","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15312,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions\/15312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}