2 weeks ago - After Israel’s attempt to kill Hamas leaders in Doha in mid-September, Qatar (together with Turkey) finally exerted enough pressure on Hamas to agree to release all remaining Israeli hostages without a full withdrawal of Israeli troops.

4 days ago - In November 2024, it was reported following another Hamas rejection of a ceasefire deal, Qatar quit mediation between Israel and Hamas and reportedly ordered the group to leave the country following U.S. pressure. However, the Qatari government stated that no such order was made.

November 19, 2024 - The most senior Hamas leader outside Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya, and other key figures in its negotiating team are no longer in Doha, Qatar’s government and a senior Palestinian official have said.

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November 10, 2024 - Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO), Vice Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement after Qatar announced they would no longer provide safe haven to Hamas terrorists:

November 18, 2024 - According to the diplomat who spoke at the time, Qatar decided to push out Hamas’s senior leaders on its own after determining that neither side had been willing to engage seriously in negotiations.

Sources told KAN that this development has been underway in recent days, allegedly due to US pressure.

1 month ago - The meeting underscores Qatar's apparent eagerness to play a central role in post-war Gaza. As a long-time supporter and funder of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, the Qatari regime's main goal seems to be ensuring that Hamas remains in power in the

November 8, 2024 - Washington says militant group’s rejection of deal to release Israeli hostages meant its presence was no longer ‘viable’

November 8, 2024 - Washington has been in touch with Qatar over when to close the group's political office, and it told Doha that now was the time. Three Hamas officials denied Qatar had told Hamas leaders they were no longer welcome in the country.

September 15, 2025 - Netanyahu himself has vowed to strike all those who organized the Hamas-led attack on Israel in 2023, and in the time since the attack in Qatar, he has doubled down on saying Qatar remains a possible target if Hamas leaders are there.

Hamas' impending expulsion from Qatar will force the group to either relocate its Politburo or disperse its senior leaders across multiple countries, either of which would carry challenges.

May 17, 2024 - WASHINGTON — Qatar quietly asked Hamas leaders to leave Doha last month amid frustration with the terror group’s handling of the hostage negotiations, two government officials told The Times of Israel this week. This was the first time since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war that Qatar took such a step, aiming to pressure the terror organization to agree to a compromise in talks that have yet to bear fruit since a weeklong hostages-for-truce deal in late November.

November 9, 2024 - The call for Hamas to be expelled from Qatar appears to be an attempt by the outgoing Biden administration to force some sort of peace deal before the end of his term in January.

November 17, 2024 - (Credits: Mahmud Hams/AFP, Louai Beshara/AFP, Hamas, Ashraf Amra/APA/ZUMA Press via Alamy) This month, Qatar announced the suspension of its mediation role between Israel and Hamas concerning a potential Gaza ceasefire and hostage release.

November 9, 2024 - The diplomat said that once the decision was made by Qatar to cease its mediating role and to kick Hamas officials out of the country, it first informed the other mediators — the US and Egypt — and then told Hamas and Israel.

November 9, 2024 - Hamas showed no signs of budging ... official said. ... Two weeks ago, the US asked Qatar to kick out Hamas, the US official said, adding that Doha agreed and gave the notice around October 28....

September 15, 2025 - The email outlined a plan of action against ISIL, and urged putting pressure on Qatar and Saudi Arabia to end their alleged support for the group. Whether the email was originally written by Hillary Clinton, her advisor Sidney Blumenthal, another person, or the hackers is unclear. Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated in May 2017 that he doesn't "know instances in which Qatar aggressively goes after (terror finance) networks of Hamas, Taliban, Al-Qaeda."