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17 November 2023; MEMO: The mother of Qatar’s Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani has stepped down from her role as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, due to the organisation’s inability to perform its role and protect Palestinian children in Gaza.

14 November 2023; MEMO: The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the Israeli army’s bombing of the headquarters of the Qatar Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza.

In a statement issued yesterday, the ministry described the attack as “a clear violation of international law and an extension of Israel’s approach to targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, which also included hospitals, schools, population centres and shelters for displaced persons.”

DOHA, Nov 6 (NNN-QNA) – Qatar’s Minister of State for Energy Affairs, yesterday, hailed the country’s growing cooperation with China, in the energy sector.

Minister Saad bin Sherida Al Kaabi, also president and CEO of QatarEnergy, highlighted the development in his keynote speech at the Sinopec Forum, held on the sidelines of the sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai yesterday.

30 October 2023; MEMO: The spokesperson for Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Majed Bin Mohammad Al Ansar, said Doha does not intend to close the Hamas office in the country due to its importance in ending the conflict.

27 October 2023; MEMO: Qatar has sentenced eight former Indian naval officers to death for allegedly spying on its submarine programme for Israel. The convictions underscore the deepening strategic ties between Israel and India, brought together by their shared ethno-nationalist ideology.

26 October 2023; MEMO: US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that he recently asked Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani to “tone down Al Jazeera‘s rhetoric about the war in Gaza,” US news website Axios reported, citing an anonymous source.

DOHA, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Qatar's ruling emir on Tuesday urged the international community not to grant Israel "unrestricted authorisation to kill" Palestinians in its fight against Hamas, in what he called a dangerous escalation that threatens global security.

17 October 2023; MEMO: Three Ukrainian children who had been taken to Russia are to be released to Qatari diplomats in Moscow this week under a mechanism Qatar has set-up with the goal of returning many more children from Russia to Ukraine, a Qatari official briefed on the plans told Reuters yesterday.

Tehran, IRNA- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has warned that war fronts will likely expand if Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip do not stop.

“If the attacks by the Zionist regime on Gaza do not stop, the expansion of war fronts is likely, and the possibility of this increases every hour,” Amirabdollahian said in an interview with Al Jazeera.

Iran’s top diplomat added that a message has been sent to the Israeli regime through its allies that if its atrocities do not cease in Gaza, “it will be very late tomorrow".

DOHA, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Former Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal called for protests across the Muslim world on Friday in support of the Palestinians and for the peoples of neighbouring countries to join the fight against Israel.

"[We must] head to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday," Meshaal, who currently heads Hamas's diaspora office, said in a recorded statement sent to Reuters.

Meshaal, who is based in Qatar, said the governments and peoples of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt have a bigger duty to support the Palestinians.