UN Security Council meet over Israel’s Qatar strike

Qatar’s Prime Minister has travelled to New York where he will address the United Nations Security Council later today after Israel’s military strike targeting Hamas leadership in the Qatari capital Doha on Tuesday. Hamas claimed that the attack failed to kill senior officials, while confirming the deaths of five lower-level members, including a Qatari security official. The Israeli attack on a country that has played a leading mediation role in seeking end the war in Gaza, has galvanized the international community in its condemnation of Israel while Qatar’s Prime Minister warned ahead of the Council meeting that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had killed any hope of releasing the hostages still held by Hamas. For more on this, lets now cross to SABC News Correspondent, Sherwin Bryce-Pease who is live for in New York.

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