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Editor of State Linked Qatari Newspaper praises Hamas

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Hostage Taking

(Update on an article posted 2 days ago.). This is why we must be careful about doing business with Qatar or any other Muslim country. This is why I have been troubled by the cozying up to Qatar by both Trump and special envoy Steve Witkoff.  Not the same values. Rh

“If success is not achieved this time in capturing Zionist soldiers,” Al-Sharq’s Jaber al-Harmi tweeted on Aug. 20, “then the second, third, and fourth attempts” will “add new rats to the tally.”

Aug. 28, 2025 / JNS)

The editor-in-chief of a Qatari daily that maintains close ties to Doha’s ruling family last week hailed attempts by the Hamas terror group to kidnap Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the Gaza Strip.

“If success is not achieved this time in capturing Zionist soldiers,” Al-Sharq‘s Jaber al-Harmi tweeted on Aug. 20, “then the second, third and fourth attempts will succeed, Inshallah, by adding new rats to the tally held by the heroes of [Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam] Brigades.”

Al-Harmi posted just hours after Hamas terrorists attempted to kidnap Israeli soldiers in Gaza, praising the ambush as a “qualitative operation” and lauding the perpetrators as “heroes.”

“Blessed be the hands of the heroes,” he wrote, adding: “And may the hands of the vile criminal outcasts be paralyzed.”

The post was subsequently deleted or removed from the X platform.

Over the course of the 22-month war between Israel and Hamas, al-Harmi has called for “harvesting the heads” of Israelis and praised slain Hamas senior leader Yahya Sinwar.

Qatar has served as the key mediator in hostage talks between Israel and Hamas, alongside Egypt and the United States. (Jerusalem News Service)

Israel frees four hostages from Hamas in daring rescue reported by John Solomon

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The Israeli military freed four hostages taken captive by Hamas in daring rescue operations Saturday in the Gaza Strip that were conducted in the shadows of a pressure campaign by the United States to force a ceasefire. 

Officials said three males and a female who had been taken captive during the attack on the Nova Music festival on Oct. 7 were rescued and taken to hospitals for treatment.

Officials identified those rescued as Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40,

All were reported in good medical condition.

Hamas took about 250 hostages during its terrorist attack on Oct. 7, and about half were released during a November cease-fire.

Saturday’s operation was the largest rescue since the war began.

Officials said Saturday’s hostages were freed in daytime raids at two separate locations in a Nuseirat refugee camp. 

All the while our incompetent administration is calling for a ceasefire that the Hamas terrorist do not want. Let Israel do what it needs to do. Finish the war and secure all the living hostages. Rh