Drop Site News / September 9, 2025
- Israeli forces carried out a strike in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, targeting senior Hamas leaders. Local media reported six powerful simultaneous explosions and smoke across the capital. A senior Hamas source told Al-Jazeera Arabic the delegation survived the attack, while Qatar condemned the strike. According to Al-Arabiya, an Israeli official said Israel informed the U.S. in advance, and that Washington gave its “full support” for the operation. It is not yet confirmed whether anyone was killed.
- The Israeli military and Shin Bet published a statement confirming they “conducted a precise strike targeting the senior leadership” of Hamas. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a post on X: “Today’s action against the top terrorist chieftains of Hamas was a wholly independent Israeli operation. Israel initiated it, Israel conducted it, and Israel takes full responsibility.”
- Before the Doha strike, Senior Hamas official Basem Naim called Trump’s proposal for Gaza a “humiliating surrender document” and a push for either “a shameful peace or continued war.” He said the U.S. plan demands Hamas hand over all captives on day one, ties Israeli withdrawal to a government approved by Israel, seeks to disarm the resistance, while completely ignoring Gaza’s reconstruction. Naim stressed Hamas seeks a deal to end the war and “halt the genocide,” and “Hamas leadership has no emperor like Japan’s Hirohito.”
- Channel 12 reported that Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer met Monday with U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, to discuss the American proposal on a captive deal and ending the genocide in Gaza, as well as the U.S. “day-after” plan for the Strip. The report cited a senior U.S. official.
- Israel also launched a series of airstrikes in Syria today, hitting a base near Homs as well as targets near Latakia and Palmyra. Monitoring groups report that Israel has carried out over 97 operations in 2025, marking a significant escalation. Syria’s Foreign Ministry condemned the strikes as violations of sovereignty and regional stability, while casualty and damage reports remain unclear. A separate wave of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley killed at least five people and injured five more, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
