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Foreign Affairs

AloeVera

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5. Ummmm....

Reply to Glorious bastard (Reply #4)

Sat Sep 13, 2025, 05:53 PM

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The United States requested in 2011 that Qatar provide a base for the Hamas leadership to ease communications with the group.[3] From 2012, Qatar hosted the Hamas party leadership when Hamas head Khaled Mashal relocated from Syria to Qatar.[4] The former head of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, had resided in Doha since 2016 until his death in 2024.[5] Qatar has been called Hamas' most important financial backer and foreign ally.[6][7]

From 2018 to 2023, Israel's government enabled and approved Qatari support for Hamas for political reasons.[8]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatari_support_for_Hamas#:~:text=At%20the%20time%2C%20the%20U.S.,Iran%2C%20the%20group's%20main%20backer.

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