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Through his attorneys, Yonatan Urich sent Israel Hayom a pre-lawsuit warning letter following a report alleging that the prime minister’s advisers passed classified information to Qatar. He is demanding an apology and preparing to seek substantial damages.

Qatar is reportedly tightening its stance toward Hamas leadership after Khalil al-Hayya’s selection. At the same time, the organization is preparing to move its covert operational hubs to Turkey, while its leadership remains in Doha.

After a sweeping American assault on 140 targets in Iran, alerts were activated in Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed they destroyed a command-and-control center at Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, "Iran made a bad choice, and now it is paying for it."

The New York Times reports that President Donald Trump changed planes after the Secret Service raised security concerns amid escalating tensions with Iran.

At a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu ruled out approving the sale of Zim to a company with Qatari-Saudi ownership, with Defense Minister Israel Katz also opposing the deal.

Indirect technical talks between the U.S. and Iran are taking place in Doha with mediation from Qatar and Pakistan. According to a Saudi report, a preliminary agreement has been reached to release $3 billion for Iran. U.S. President Donald Trump said, "The talks with Iran are going very well."

U.S. representatives for the talks with Iran, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, arrived in Doha, Qatar’s capital. But contrary to President Donald Trump’s statement that a meeting would be held with senior Iranian officials, Qatari officials confirmed that no such meeting will take place, and each side will speak separately with the mediators.

President Donald Trump said Iran requested an official meeting in Doha as soon as tomorrow. In Tehran, officials pushed back: "The technical meetings of the working groups are not scheduled for this week."

Amid the exchange of fire between Washington and Tehran, President Donald Trump said that "the Iranian military is in total disarray, the bully of the Middle East is dead!" In a follow-up interview with Fox News, he escalated his tone: "I am close to ordering additional strikes in Iran."

UN Watch says several rapporteurs received outside funding while issuing disproportionate criticism of Israel

An Iranian delegation led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf spent the day in Qatar. Arab media reported that Iran is willing to transfer its enriched uranium to China, but the U.S. is refusing.

The U.S. military said it destroyed two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boats in the Strait of Hormuz and struck an air defense site in Bandar Abbas. Washington stressed the action was self-defense. President Donald Trump said overnight that Iran’s enriched uranium would be transferred to the United States immediately for destruction.

With approval from the attorney general’s office, prosecutors instructed police to carry out additional investigative steps in the case known as the "Qatar-Gate" affair. Among those called in to testify were several diplomatic correspondents.

An Israeli political source responded to reports of progress between the U.S. and Iran, stressing: "It was made clear to us from the conversations that President Trump is standing by his red lines, first and foremost the removal of the nuclear material." He said Netanyahu is in near-daily contact with Trump.

Shurat HaDin filed complaints with the ICC and Israel’s attorney general, alleging Qatar and U.K. private intelligence firms aided Hamas and interfered with the court in matters tied to Prosecutor Karim Khan.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the FBI has testimony alleging Qatari officials promised to “take care of” ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, if he advanced an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In a forceful address at Auschwitz, Silvan Adams, president of the World Jewish Congress in Israel, warned of a coordinated global wave of antisemitism. He urged law-enforcement leaders to act now, before hate spirals into another large-scale disaster.

After a wave of reported missile and drone strikes hitting civilian targets, foreign ministers meeting in Riyadh issued a blistering joint statement condemning Iran, backing the right to self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter, and urging an emergency UN session.

Emails show Qatar Foundation urged American campuses in Doha to share and coordinate statements about the Hamas attack before making them public

Move follows $5.2B in foreign university funding disclosures, with Qatar listed as the largest source