Hello and welcome to this live blog. Here we will keep you informed of the latest developments of the conflict in the Middle East.
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Israel destroys the highest residential tower of Gaza Israel has destroyed the al-Ghaphri tower, the highest residential tower of the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reports. The twenty floors tower is in western Gaza city, an area where Israel has called on the population to leave. Israel has bombed many tall buildings in Gaza in recent weeks, which often consist of homes. Israel claims, usually without providing evidence, that the towers are used by Hamas. The evacuation statements that often come in shortly before an attack are not always followed. Some Palestinians refuse to leave because they no longer believe that they are safe in the areas that Israel has designated for that.
1 hour ago
Netanyahu: Israel must prepare for ‘isolated’ position Israel, because of the war in Gaza, will have to prepare for a long -term “isolated position” in the coming years, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today at a press conference about the finances of the country.
Various countries have reduced or stopped trade with Israel since the Israeli invasion of Gaza after the attack of Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023. That is why, according to Netanyahu, the Israeli economy must become more self -sufficient.
Netanyahu specifically discussed the arms industry in the country. According to him, he must look like “both Athens and Great Sparta”. He was referring to the sphere of influence of ancient Athens and the war -focused Spartan society in ancient times.
1 hour ago
Leaders Qatar-Top want countries to revise their relationship with Israel The Arab and Islamic leaders who have come together for a top in Qatar call on all countries to revise their relationship with Israel. They believe that the countries “should take all possible legal and effective measures to prevent Israel from continuing with his actions against the Palestinian people”. That is stated in the final statement of the top.
The Qatarese Prime Minister called the leaders together to discuss the Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Doha. They condemn the “cowardly and illegal attack” and state that Israel has undermined the peace process. Together with Egypt between Hamas and Israel, Qatar mediates over a ceasefire.
6 hours ago
US encourages Qatar to continue to mediate the American foreign minister Marco Rubio has called on on Monday to continue to play a constructive role in resolving the war in Gaza. He did that during a joint press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Rubio travels on to Qatar, where Hamas members were attacked by Israel last week.
Rubio also expressed support to Israel again. “Hamas must cease to exist as an armed element that can threaten peace and safety in the region.”
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Israel intercepted Drone near airport in the south The Israeli army has intercepted a drone near Ramon airport in southern Israel near the seaside town of Eilat. According to the army, the drone came from the Houthi rebels from Yemen.
Last Sunday the arrival hall of the same airport was damaged in a drone attack of the Houthi rebels.
So at 5.14 am
Israeli army searches the Palestinian Oscar winner De Palestinian director and activist Basel Adra says he was attacked by settlers on the occupied West Bank yesterday. When he gathered family members who were injured in the incident, accompanied a hospital, the Israeli army searched his home, the filmmaker tells CNN . The Israeli army announces CNN in a response that it had sent units to Adra’s hometown at-tuwani after reports that “terrorists” had thrown stones to Israeli civilians. Adra denies that stones have been thrown.
Adra has been filming actions by settlers and the Israeli army in the Masafer Yatta region for years. That led to documentary No Other Land from 2024, which he made with coreers Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham. In March, N Otherland won the Oscar for Best Documentary. On March, Adra said that he and his colleagues have the feeling that they are being attacked more often since winning the award. In June, the Palestinian activist Awdah Hathalen, who participated in the documentary, was shot by a colonist.
Sat at 10.54 pm
Families hostage: ‘Netanyahu is obstacle to release’ the hostages and missing families forum said today that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the biggest obstacle for the release of Israeli hostages from Gaza. “The targeted operation in Qatar has without a doubt shown that there is one obstacle to the return of the hostages and the end of the war: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” said the group. “Every time there is an agreement in sight, Netanyahu sabotages it.”
The forum thus responds to an X-message from Netanyahu from earlier in the evening. In it he said that the elimination of the leaders of Hamas in Qatar would put an end to the war and would take care of the return of the hostages.
Tonight in Tel Aviv was again demonstrated against the government. The demonstrators called on the government to end the war and to conclude an agreement to free the hostages.
Sat at 1.02 pm
Israeli army: ‘Quarter million people have left Gaza City’ It is estimated that the Israeli army (IDF) have left Gaza City about a quarter of a million people in recent weeks. This number has not been verified independently.
Israel tries to take the center of the city and performs the attacks and bombing. The army sends the inhabitants of groceries which states which buildings or neighborhoods will be destroyed in the following attacks. The siege sounds fierce criticism from the international community.
Gaza City is the largest city in the Gaza Strip and populated even closer than the rest of the Palestinian area. According to the UN there are about a million people living in and around the city.
Sat at 10.47 am
General Meeting UN supports steps towards two -state solution The General Meeting of the United Nations approved on Friday with a large majority with a statement that calls for a two -state solution. The statement was the result of an international conference on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians at the initiative of Saudi Arabia and France.
142 states, including the Netherlands, voted for the statement. Israel, the United States and eight other countries were against. Twelve countries did not vote.
A UN conference on the two-state solution is planned on 22 September. France, Canada, the United Kingdom and Belgium, among others, is then expected to officially recognize the Palestinian state.
Sat at 10.29 am
Experts suspect targeted shots on children in Gaza in the Gaza Strip was probably aimed at children, De Volkskrant reports after extensive research. The newspaper spoke with fifteen international doctors who worked in the Gaza Strip, among others. Together they saw at least 114 children aged fifteen or younger who only had a shot wound in their head or chest. That is an indication of targeted shooting, say forensic experts and former commander Mart de Kruif.
According to eyewitnesses, the bullets almost always came from the Israeli army. Experts also tell the Volkskrant that the wounds appear to be the result of distance shots of Israeli snipers or drones.
Earlier , BBC News and The New York Times also wrote about dozens of children who were hit by bullets in their head or chest. Israel denies targeted citizens.
12 Sep 2025 at 7.50 am
Prime Minister Qatar talks about Israeli attack on Doha The American Foreign Minister Marco Rubio will receive Qatarese Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulrahman al-thani in the White House later today. They discuss the Israeli attack on Qatar and a ceasefire in Gaza, according to reports from the American foreign ministery.
Polico and Axios report that Al-Rhani also has a meeting with President Trump, Vice President Vance and the special envoy for the Middle East Witkoff. Trump already announced that he was not happy with the Israeli attack on Tuesday. The American president wants to keep Qatar as a mediator for a truce in Gaza.
10 Sep 2025 at 11.37 pm
‘Heat’ telephone conversation between Trump and Netanyahu Trump called Netanyahu’s decision to attack Hamas leaders in Doha “not smart” in a “heated” phone call, writes the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal . Trump would be deeply frustrated because he was only informed shortly before the attack. Netanyahu had little choice, the prime minister replied, because he only had the time to decide on the attack.
10 Sep 2025 at 8.33 pm
Qatar wants countries in the region with ‘joint answer’ to the Qatarese prime minister announced that he will call an Arab-Islamic top in the capital Doha in the coming days. There he hopes to agree with other countries in the region about a “joint answer” after the Israeli attack on Qatarees territory.
The prime minister does not say what such an answer could look like. “But we hope for something Israel prevents from going with these harassment,” Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-thani told the American news channel CNN .
10 Sep 2025 at 8.17 pm
The death toll after the Israeli attack in Yemen continues to rise, the Yemeni authorities report. In total at least 35 people were already killed and 131 others were injured. Israel says that the military infrastructure has attacked, but the local authorities state that civilian goals have been hit.
10 Sep 2025 at 8.05 am
Hamas headpieces were injured in Israeli attack The Qatarese Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani confirms in a television interview with CNN that two leaders of Hamas were injured in the Israeli attack on Doha. No leaders of the militant movement would have been killed in the attack. Five others did died, including the son and an important employee of Hamas leader Khalil Al Hayya.
10 Sep 2025 at 7.13 pm
Starmer is going to address Israeli president on attack in Qatar The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer receives Israeli president Isaac Herzog to talk about Israel’s attack on Doha and the crisis in Gaza. It will probably be tense conversations. Starmer wants to raise the Israeli air raid on Qatar and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, says his spokesperson.
Herzog, in turn, wants to “completely present the views that the United Kingdom has presented”. Below that is the British intention to recognize a Palestinian state, his office reported in a statement.
10 Sep 2025 at 6.56 pm
At least nine people were killed in the attack in Yemen, says the Yemeni Ministry of Health. 118 people would have been injured. A spokesperson for the Houthis says that the attack was not aimed at military infrastructures, but on civilian goals.
10 Sep 2025 at 4.50 pm
Several deaths after Israel attack on Houthis in Yemen Israel has carried out a new attack this afternoon on the Houthi rebels in Yemen. In addition, several people died and injured, reports Al Masirah TV , which is in the hands of the Houthis.
The attack was aimed, among other things, on army camps and the military communication office of the Houthis in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, reports the Israeli army on Telegram. Israel attacked the communication office, because “propaganda messages” of Houthi leaders were spread from there.
10 Sep 2025 at 1.32 pm
Doubts in Israel about the success of mission in Doha Israeli officials doubt the success of the attack on Hamas leaders in Doha. The fact that so many hours have elapsed without a clear conclusion is disturbing, an officer says to the Israeli medium . “If Israel did not kill Hamas leaders on Tuesday at an air raid on Qatar, it will succeed next time,” says the Israeli ambassador in the United States.
10 Sep 2025 at 1.27 pm
Israeli army falls residential tower in Gaza city on the Israeli army (IDF) confirms that it has attacked a skyscraper in Gaza city. That has happened more often in recent days. According to the IDF, the residential towers are used by Hamas to plan attacks. Israel has not yet substantiated these claims.
The Israeli army says it has issued an evacuation warning to residents of the area before the attack was carried out. With previous attacks, Palestinians only had the time to grab and flee their things.
10 Sep 2025 at 12.18 pm
Von der Leyen asks EU for action against Israel European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in its annual speech, continues to a partial suspension of the association agreement with Israel. According to the EU boss, it is “unacceptable” what happens in Gaza.
Von der Leyen wants trade agreements with Israel to be suspended and calls on the Member States of the European Union to support this. The European Commission wants to stop bilateral support for Israel and impose sanctions on “extreme ministers and violent settlers”.
10 Sep 2025 at 7.51 am
Fire on board the ship Alma, one of the boats of the Gaza help fleet GSF. The fire is said to have been created by a drone attack.
10 Sep 2025 at 7.25 am
Auxiliary fleet towards Gaza reports second attack on Boot by Drone The organization behind the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) campaign, a fleet ships that brings help of Gaza, reports that one of her boats was hit by what was probably a drone. The incident is said to have taken place off the coast of Tunisia. It would be the second time that a GSF boat was attacked with a drone.
“Another boat has been hit by a suspected drone attack. No injuries have been reported,” the GSF reports on social media. On Monday, the organization reported a similar attack that disputed the Tunisian authorities. An explosion was on board. The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is present on the fleet.
9 Sep 2025 at 10.57 pm
Qatar continues to mediate between Israel and Hamas, which says Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thhani at a press conference. Together with Egypt, the country is a mediator between Israel and the US on one side and Hamas to the other. According to the prime minister, nothing can cause the country to stop mediating because it is part of the Qatarese identity.
Earlier, Israeli media wrote that Qatar would withdraw as a mediator.
9 Sep 2025 at 10.48 pm
Trump responds to Israeli attack The American president is not happy with the Israeli attack. For example, he regrets the location of the bombing and would not benefit both Israel and the US. “This was a decision by Prime Minister Netanyahu, this was not my decision,” he writes on Truth Social.
He does say that the “unfortunate incident” can be a way to peace between Israel and Hamas. He does not clarify how that is exactly.
Furthermore, Trump commissioned the American foreign minister Marco Rubio to work on an agreement for a defense cooperation with Qatar.
9 Sep 2025 at 10.01 am
The Qatarese Prime Minister also says that the US called ten minutes after the attack. Earlier, Qatar said in a statement that the US was called when explosions were heard in Doha. Trump had ordered Qatar to inform about the Israeli attack.
9 Sep 2025 at 10 p.m.
Air defense system Recognized Weapons Israel Not the Qatarese Prime Minister says that Israel used weapons that could not recognize the air defense system. According to him, Israel would also like to “sabotage” the peace negotiations with the “treacherous” attack.
9 Sep 2025 at 9.33 pm
The Netherlands condemns Israeli attack in Doha Nederland condemns the Israeli air raid in Doha. This is what foreign minister David van Weel (VVD) writes on X in response to the attack. “The sovereignty of states must be respected,” says the minister. He adds: “Moreover, the attack does not help to bring a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas closer.”
9 Sep 2025 at 9.21 pm
Qatar speaks of ‘serious escalation’ and starts research Qatar tells the UN Security Council that sees the Israeli attack as a “serious escalation”. “We do not tolerate this reckless Israeli behavior and the disruption of regional safety.” The country will start a study “at the highest level”. More details about this will be announced later.
9 Sep 2025 at 9.09 pm
EU responds to attack in Doha According to the EU, the attack is contrary to international law and “the territorial integrity of Qatar”. Israel also risks further escalation and violence in the region, is in a statement.
9 Sep 2025 at 8.45 pm
Qatar would withdraw as a mediator that several Israeli media report. Together with Egypt, the country was a mediator between Israel and the US on one side and Hamas at the other. “They have done their stinking best, and now Qatar is being put in its shirt internationally, because Israel believes that the Qatarese national borders can set aside,” says Middle East expert Peter Malcontent to Nu.nl.
9 Sep 2025 at 8.38 pm
A helicopter flies above the site of the Israeli attack in Doha.
9 Sep 2025 at 8.26 pm
NU.nl-Buitenland reporter Matthijs Le Loux : The White House confirms reporting from several international media that it had been informed in advance by Israel. This does not contribute to the credibility of Trump’s regret to Qatar.
As the tense relationship between Netanyahu and Trumps predecessor Joe Biden showed, Israel does not always do what his greatest ally wants. At the same time, it is clear that only the US can whistle Israeli prime minister in such a situation: Israel is highly dependent on American support. If the US really makes a breaking point of a diplomatic disagreement, then there is little chance that Tel Aviv will easily ignore it.
Israeli media report that the US was not only aware, but Israel explicitly gave permission for the attack in Qatar. If that is not true, the American approval was at least implicit: the White House did not use his muscles to avert the attack.
9 Sep 2025 at 8.22 pm
Message from Witkoff came in during the Qatarese Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that the American warning for the attack came in when explosions were heard in Doha. Earlier Qatar denied that the special American envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, had informed the country.
9 Sep 2025 at 8.19 pm
Furthermore, Hamas says that the attacks of the delegation that is responsible for negotiations on a cease-fire shows that Netanyahu “does not want to reach an agreement”. He and his government “deliberately try to thwart all international efforts, taking no account of the lives of their prisoners in the resistance (the Israeli hostages in Gaza, ed.), The sovereignty of states and the safety and stability of the region.”
9 Sep 2025 at 8.14 pm
Hamas shares the identity of five dead. Besides the son and an important employee of Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya indeed still three employees of his security. These are the names in a row:
9 Sep 2025 at 7.54 pm
After attack with Qatar and Israel Trump, Trump spoke with both Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Leader of Qatar after the attack. Netanyahu would have said that he wants to make peace with Hamas quickly.
Trump promised to the Qatarese leader that such an attack will no longer occur on his territory.
9 Sep 2025 at 7.51 pm
US would inform Qatar of attack The White House confirms in a statement that it was informed of the attack this morning. Steve Witkoff, the American special envoy for the Middle East, should have informed Qatar of the Israeli attack.
Furthermore, the White House says that hitting Hamas is a “worthy goal”. The US does feel bad about the location of the bombing.
9 Sep 2025 at 7.40 pm
The Israeli attack on Doha can count on substantial international criticism from Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt, among others. According to the president of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun, Israel deliberately sabotages “all attempts to achieve stability in the region”.
9 Sep 2025 at 7.35 pm
Hamas: attack changes requirements in Gaza does not in a statement Hamas says that the Israeli attack on the negotiators of the Hamas delegation will not change the demands for a cease-fire in Gaza. Hamas wants, among other things, that Israeli troops withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
Furthermore, the militant movement says that in addition to Israel, they also hold the US responsible for the attack. A senior official of the White House previously told CNN that they had been informed in advance.
9 Sep 2025 at 7.22 pm
An ambulance is en route to the site of the Israeli attack. According to Hamas, there may have been five deaths. Earlier, the death of the son and an important employee of Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya was announced. In addition, three bodyguards would have been missing.
9 Sep 2025 at 7.03 pm
Member of Qatarese security forces killed by attack A member of the Safety forces of Qatar died in the Israeli attack. Others would have been injured, reports Reuters news agency based on a statement from the Ministry of the Interior of Qatar.
9 Sep 2025 at 6.59 pm
Netanyahu: “Terrorist leaders no longer inviolable” During a television speech, the Israeli Prime Minister stated that “the days in which leaders of terror groups were still inviolable”. “I will not let that immunity continue.”
9 Sep 2025 at 6.28 pm
Son of Hamas Koppuk Khalil Al-Hayya killed at Israeli attack that reports an officer of Hamas to news channel Al Jazeera . Al-Hayya would have survived the attack itself. One of his most important assistants was also killed.
Khalil Al-Hayya is considered one of the most important leaders within Hamas. His influence reportedly increased after the death of the former Hamas leaders Ismael Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar, in July and October last year. According to Reuters news agency, he is part of the five -member leadership council of the militant movement, which has been die since Sinwar’s management. Al-Hayya plays a key role in the negotiations with Israel and is seen as the most influential figure of the movement abroad.
9 Sep 2025 at 6.15 pm
The United Kingdom criticizes Israeli attack A spokesperson for Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells journalists that he does not want “further escalation of violence in the region”. That would only increase the “risk of further destabilization”.
9 Sep 2025 at 6.04 pm
Netanyahu ordered DOHA’s attack after attack in Jerusalem The Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had the Israeli army prepared the attack after the shooting in the Israeli city of Jerusalem in which six people died yesterday, which is in a shared statement with defense minister Israel Katz.
Hamas demanded that shooting on.netanyahu earlier today that he gave the task for the attack around noon (Israeli times). According to Netanyahu there was an ‘operational possibility’. The Israeli Prime Minister claims that the attack is “completely justified”.
Two shooters killed six people waiting for the bus in Jerusalem on Monday. Twelve others were injured.
9 Sep 2025 at 5.47 pm
American warning for citizens in Doha lifted the American embassy in Qatar has withdrawn the advice for Americans to hide. That warning came a few moments after the Israeli attack on Doha.
Qatar also reported earlier that the danger seemed to have passed.
9 Sep 2025 at 5.43 pm
Khalil Al-Hayya would have been one of the targets of the Israeli attack. He is reportedly the most important negotiator on behalf of the Hamas delegation.
9 Sep 2025 at 5.29 pm
Source Witte Huis also says that the US of attack “we have been informed in advance,” a high official in the White House told CNN, among others. The same was previously reported by Israeli sources. A source says CBS News, however, that the warning would only have been issued briefly in advance. Two other sources tell CBS that the US and Israel have not discussed the attack of the attack. Israel emphasizes that the attack worked independently.
9 Sep 2025 at 5.01 pm
‘Relationships in the Middle East are not getting better’ an agreement between Israel and Hamas already seemed far away, and the attack on Hamas headpieces in Doha seems to bring a file not closer. “This has two important consequences,” says Peter Malcontent, Middle East expert at Utrecht University, to Nu.nl about the Israeli attack.
“In the first place, it brings out a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. It will not encourage Hamas to be flexible in the negotiations. Now it was already the question of whether those negotiations would run out, so the second consequence is perhaps even more important: the relationships in the Middle East are not getting any better.”
9 Sep 2025 at 4.56 pm
A camera crew from the French news agency AFP recorded the cloud of smoke, just after the explosion.
9 Sep 2025 at 4.39 pm
UN chef condemns the attack according to UN Chef Antonio Guterres, the attack is a clear violation of the sovereignty of Qatar. “All parties must work on a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, not destroying”.
Together with Egypt, Qatar plays an important role as a mediator in the negotiations between Hamas and Israel. Jordan also calls the attack a violation of international law. According to them, the attack is “a serious threat to the Qatarese population,” said foreign minister Ayman Safadi on X. Safadi states that the attack also endangers the safety and stability of the region. He says he is completely behind Qatar to “take every necessary step” in response to the “aggression”.
9 Sep 2025 at 4.18 pm
Plumes of smoke above Qatarese city of Doha after Israeli air raid
9 Sep 2025 at 4.16 pm
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office: “Israel takes full responsibility for attack” today’s action against Hamas’s terror leaders was a completely independent operation, “said the statement on X.” Israel took the initiative, Israel has carried out it and Israel takes full responsibility “.
Earlier, Channel 12 reported on the basis of a high Israeli official that US President Trump would have given the green light for the attack. An Israeli also tells CNN that the US has been informed in advance. A