GOP senator compares Israel’s Hamas fight to US killing of Osama bin Laden

First on Fox: senator Steve DainesR-Mont. , following a strike in the Jewish state of Qatar, is heading to Israel, which he believes is part of the “single purpose” of Israel’s eradication of Hamas.

this Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced a strike aimed at targeting senior Hamas leadership on Tuesday. However, the attack took place more than 1,300 miles in Doha, Qatar.

The Katari government has been a key figure in the negotiations to seek a ceasefire and hostage return as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas following a brutal attack on October 7, 2023.

Trump instructed the envoy to warn Qatar before “unfortunately” Israel strikes.

So far, Katari officials have condemned the strike, and the White House has taken a rare step towards Israel in the aftermath.

Daines, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, compared Hamas to the “cancer” that Israel needs to eradicate. If the United States is in Israel’s position, “1,200 innocent Americans [were] Massacre by terrorists 40 miles from Washington, D.C., and then “the United States will do everything it can to eliminate the threat.”

He told Fox News that “as we have seen, whether with Iran or Hezbollah, the Israelis sometimes have nothing to do with.” “They will follow them, with what the United States did when she followed Pakistan’s Osama bin Laden. We did not ask for permission from Pakistan.”

After the attack, the president Donald Trump Tell reporters that he was not excited about the situation.

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“I’m very dissatisfied with this, very dissatisfied with every aspect. We have to restore the hostages, but I’m very dissatisfied with the way it happened,” Trump said.

The Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the attack and took the “criminal attack” as a measure, posing a “blatant violation of all international laws and norms, as well as a serious threat to the safety and safety of Qataris and Qatari residents.”

Daines’ plan to go to the Jewish state was before the strike, initially to celebrate the excavation of ancient stone steps and a road called the Pilgrimage Road, which is believed to have gone, from Siloam to The Tomple Mount.

The MP had previously traveled to Israel to commemorate the progress of ongoing archaeological excavations in 2023, months before Hamas’ blitzkrieg against Israel.

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Now, he plans to travel, Secretary of State Marco Rubio US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is expected to attend, with a possible different tenor.

Danes said he had just spoken with the Israeli ambassador on Monday and hoped that his schedule would meet with the Israeli Prime Minister. Benjamin Netanyahu. He also noted that he has not seen an assessment of the strike that attacked a residential complex in Doha.

Asked if he was concerned that the strike could derail the ceasefire talk, Daines noted that he appreciated the cooperation of Qatar and noted that the U.S. has the largest military base in the Middle East there. But, he added: “Obviously, Hamas is trying to escape the influence of the Israeli government.”

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“As we said, ‘Sometimes you can run, but you can’t hide,’ Israel has to make a decision because they know, like they did to Iran, where they took military leadership, they pulled out nuclear scientists because they couldn’t allow Iran to get into the bomb.”

He continued: “Same, for Hamas, they will have to come up with command and control structures, leadership. They have a single mission and Israel will do its best to protect itself.”

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Fox News’s Greg Norman contributed to the report.