Israeli TV host celebrates Doha attack with champagne, sweets on air
An Israeli television host has celebrated his country’s deadly attack on Hamas in Doha on air with champagne and baklava for his studio guests.
Footage shared by Israel’s right-wing Channel 14 showed host Yinon Magal, host of daily current affairs show “The Patriots”, opening his show by playing music and popping a bottle of champagne, as the studio audience applauded.
Countless countries and international bodies have strongly condemned the attacks.
עם בקלאוות ושמפניה: לאחר תקיפת הנהגת חמאס בקטאר - ככה הפטריוטים פתחו הערב את התוכנית#הפטריוטים@YinonMagal pic.twitter.com/DjvddCRrcf
— C14 (@C14_news) September 9, 2025
Translation: With baklava and champagne: After the strike on Hamas leadership in Qatar – this is how The Patriots opened the show tonight #thepatriots
Netanyahu says Qatar must expel Hamas members, threatens further strikes
The Israeli leader threatened further attacks on Qatar, seeming to wave aside outrage over Israeli strikes on Hamas negotiators and officials in Doha on Monday.
“I say to Qatar and all nations who harbour terrorists, you either expel them or you bring them to justice. Because if you don’t, we will,” Netanyahu said in remarks commemorating the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
Qatar says there will be a ‘collective response’ to Israeli ‘bullying’
Speaking with the US news outlet CNN, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said that there must be a “collective response” to Israeli aggression.
“There is a response that will happen from the region. This response is currently under consultation and discussion with other partners in the region,” Al Thani said. “We are hoping for something meaningful that deters Israel from continuing this bullying,” he added.
The Qatari leader also said that the Israeli strike was aimed at undermining “any chance of peace”. “Everything about the meeting is very well known to the Israelis and the Americans. It’s not something that we are hiding,” Al Thani said of the presence of Hamas officials in Qatar.
“I think that what Netanyahu has done yesterday – he just killed any hope for those [Israeli] hostages,” he added.
Qatar ‘strongly condemns’ Netanyahu’s earlier comments on hosting Hamas
Qatar has issued a new condemnation of the Israeli PM after he earlier said that the country must expel Hamas members. Qatar called them a “shameful attempt … to justify the cowardly attack that targeted Qatari territory, as well as the explicit threats of future violations of state sovereignty”.
Netanyahu’s remarks did imply that more attacks could come in the future. “I say to Qatar and all nations who harbour terrorists, you either expel them or you bring them to justice. Because if you don’t, we will”, he said.
“Netanyahu is fully aware that the hosting of the Hamas office took place within the framework of Qatar’s mediation efforts requested by the United States and Israel,” Qatar continued.
“He is also fully aware of the office’s role in facilitating numerous exchanges and ceasefires, which have been widely acknowledged and appreciated by the international community and have brought relief to Palestinian civilians and Israeli hostages in desperate need of basic humanitarian relief from the ruthlessness that has ensued since October 7th,” it added.
“Such statements are hardly surprising coming from an individual who relies on extremist rhetoric to win elections and is wanted for international justice, facing mounting sanctions on a daily basis – factors that only deepen his isolation on the global stage.
