{"id":482737,"date":"2025-09-13T19:32:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/marco-rubio-says-israels-attack-on-qatar-wont-change-us-support\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T19:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:32:28","slug":"marco-rubio-says-israels-attack-on-qatar-wont-change-us-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/international\/marco-rubio-says-israels-attack-on-qatar-wont-change-us-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio says Israel&#8217;s attack on Qatar &#8220;won&#8217;t change&#8221; US support"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>United States<\/strong>&nbsp;does not approve of&nbsp;<strong>Israel<\/strong>&#8216;s bombings against&nbsp;<strong>Hamas in Qatar<\/strong>, but the attack will not change its status as a Washington ally, said&nbsp;<strong>Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/strong>&nbsp;on Saturday before traveling to that region.\n\nThe&nbsp;<strong>air strikes&nbsp;<\/strong>on Tuesday \u2014 the first by&nbsp;<strong>Israel&nbsp;<\/strong>against&nbsp;<strong>Qatar<\/strong>, an ally of&nbsp;<strong>the United States<\/strong>\u2014 have shocked the region and have put enormous pressure on diplomatic efforts to achieve a&nbsp;<strong>truce in Gaza.<\/strong>\n\n&#8220;What happened, happened. Obviously, we didn&#8217;t like it, the president (of the United States, Donald Trump) didn&#8217;t like it,&#8221; Rubio told the press shortly before leaving Washington to meet with authorities in Israel.\n\n&#8220;It&#8217;s not going to change the nature of <strong>our relationship with the Israelis<\/strong>, but we&#8217;ll have to talk about it; mainly, what impact this will have&#8221; on truce efforts, Rubio added.\n\n&#8220;We need to move forward and determine what&#8217;s next, because after all, there&#8217;s still a group called&nbsp;<strong>Hamas<\/strong>, an evil group.&#8221;\n\n<strong>Israel attacked Hamas leaders<\/strong>&nbsp;meeting in Qatar to discuss a new ceasefire proposal presented by the <strong>Trump administration.<\/strong>\n\nThe U.S. president called the Israeli attack <strong>regrettable<\/strong>, reprimanded Prime Minister <strong>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong>, and stated that the United States found out about the bombing too late to stop it.\n\nWhen referring to <strong>Rubio<\/strong>&#8216;s visit, the State Department merely indicated this week that the American diplomat would discuss &#8220;operational goals and objectives&#8221; with Israel and demonstrate &#8220;the <strong>United States&#8217; commitment<\/strong> to Israeli security.&#8221;\n\nThe trip of the <strong>Secretary of State<\/strong> to <strong>Israel<\/strong> is scheduled just a week before France leads a United Nations summit on September 22, in which several Western countries plan to recognize a Palestinian state centered in the West Bank.\n\nFrance, exasperated by the massive Israeli offensive<strong>&nbsp;in Gaza<\/strong>, has rejected American and Israeli criticism and affirms that there must be a new path for the Palestinians.\n\n\n<p><strong>SOURCE: AFP AGENCY<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States&nbsp;does not approve of&nbsp;Israel&#8216;s bombings against&nbsp;Hamas in Qatar, but the attack will not change its status as a Washington ally, said&nbsp;Secretary of State Marco Rubio&nbsp;on Saturday before traveling to that region. The&nbsp;air strikes&nbsp;on Tuesday \u2014 the first by&nbsp;Israel&nbsp;against&nbsp;Qatar, an ally of&nbsp;the United States\u2014 have shocked the region and have put enormous pressure on diplomatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":482738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[27654,40230],"class_list":{"0":"post-482737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"tag-marco-rubio","9":"tag-united-states"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/J3NHJKGVWZDHHF7RJIPBKIPYF4.avif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21A5","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/J3NHJKGVWZDHHF7RJIPBKIPYF4.avif"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}