Official Qatari media outlets continue to unreservedly support the terror organization Hamas and to publish articles and cartoons comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and the Palestinians in Gaza to the Nazis' victims. At the same time, the Qatari government is involved in negotiations for the release of the hostages captured by Hamas, and it presents Hamas's positions at the
The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday blasted a Palestinian columnist for the Qatar daily paper Al-Watan who authored a commentary in May calling on Palestinians to carry out terror attacks on Israelis, including calls for Arab countries to go on war