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UN Watch Delivers the Perfect Response to Critics of Israel Targeting Hamas in Qatar

Leah Barkoukis
Leah Barkoukis  |  September 12, 2025 8:00 AM

Israel took its fight against Hamas to Qatar this week, targeting the headquarters of the terror group’s political leadership in Doha as they gathered to weigh a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire. Hamas said its top leaders survived but five members were killed along with a Qatari security official. It’s no surprise that Qatar blasted the escalation, calling the strike a “flagrant violation of all international laws and norms.” But UN Watch's Hillel Neuer was in Geneva on Wednesday giving them a must-watch dose of reality. 

In a series of questions, the head of the watchdog organization put their hypocrisy on full display. 

Here at the United Nations in Geneva, after Iran, Libya, Algeria, Venezuela and others condemned Israel for bombing Hamas in Qatar, I just took the floor to deliver the following speech. Pakistan interrupted me in the middle. 

“Mr. President, we have heard a lot about international law – from the world’s worst violators of international law. It’s time to challenge the perpetrators. 

And so, we ask Qatar: If you don’t want targeted bombings against terrorists in your capital, why do you harbor terrorists in your capital?  Terrorists who are still holding hostages, torturing them, and rejecting peace deals? 

Why did you host Ismail Haniyeh, Khaled Mashal, and Khalil al-Hayya in luxury hotels, from where where they planned their terror?

Why did you back Hamas’s Gaza coup in 2007? 

Why have you funneled billions since then, fueling their terror machine, empowering their 5 wars against Israel?

Why did you blame Israel for October 7, absolving Hamas of massacring 1200 Israelis, Americans and others?

Why is your state-owned Al Jazeera serving as the terror group’s non-stop propaganda arm?Why do you act as mediator by day, and a terror sponsor by night?

Mr. President, the record shows: Qatar is a state sponsor of terror. The Gulf states said so in 2017, when they suspended ties with Qatar.

Yesterday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and French President Emmanuel Macron condemned Israel. 

But when the U.S. killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, the UN chief at the time celebrated that “justice has been done to such a mastermind of international terrorism.” 

France called it a “victory for all democracies.” 

We ask both: how is this different?

When Israel captured the Nazi Adolf Eichman, rescued the hostages at Entebbe, and destroyed Saddam’s nuclear reactor, the U.N. condemned Israel. 

Each time, history vidicated Israel.

And history shall remember the courage of those who acted, and the disgrace of those who condemned.”

As he mentioned above, Pakistan interrupted him to object. When the mic was turned back over for a four-second response, Neuer simply reminded everyone, "Pakistan is another state sponsor of terror."