After Hamas statements on ISIS.. Will Qatar recount its accounts with the movement?

Despite the strong ties between Qatar and Hamas in Palestine, nurtured and supported by their major ally Iran, which sponsors disintegration and divisions in Palestine to prevent any peace attempts with Israel and fuel crises, which relationship seems to be on the verge of transformation.

The statements of the Hamas leadership that blessed the recent ISIS operation inside Palestine have put Qatar in an extremely embarrassing position, especially as it now enjoys a special status before the new U.S. administration, which designated it a non-NATO ally.

The British BBC Arabic service reported: The praise of Hamas leaders for ISIS and the call for more attacks against Israel is a major setback in which the movement did not take into account Qatar’s new place in international relations as the only supporter preventing its demise, proving its concern for its own interests in the first place.

Hamas issued a statement calling the ISIS operation in Hadera in northern Israel a “qualitative operation”; I described it as a natural response to the Negev summit that brought together American Secretary of State Antony Blinken with the foreign ministers of Israel, Morocco, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, fearing that the summit would affect it.

This coincides with Qatar’s announcement of the opening of a workshop to install electronic prosthetics in Gaza to support dozens of war-affected patients, which would not have been possible without Qatar’s strong relations with Israel allowing it to play a role in Gaza.

These statements put Qatar in a dilemma in justifying its support for Hamas’s survival, while the movement seeks to mobilize youth to carry out criminal operations and shed more blood, raising several questions, including: “How will it be possible to maintain the Qatari channels of communication with the occupying Power and to respond to its demands and interventions in the Gaza Strip at a time when Hamas has made a clear declaration that it does not mind that Gaza is the scene of infiltration of ISIS members into Israel?”.

This strongly dictates that Israel should reconsider Qatar’s relationship with Hamas and its mediation to support reconstruction efforts, and the relationship between Qatar and Israel.

Therefore, the meeting of the Chairman of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, Mohammed Al Emadi, with Yahya Sinwar touched on the reduction of the grant allocated to officials of the Hamas government in Gaza from $10 to $3 million. Therefore, the decision of Qatar to reduce the amount comes because Hamas hides from Doha in its financial reports information related to the amounts and sources of revenue.

A Qatari source said: Al-Emadi rebuked Sinwar and called for full transparency in front of Qatar, because Hamas does not think about supporting the reconstruction process as much as it thinks about having a portion of the reconstruction funds to continue its support for the factions of the military wing.

The British report continued: The rationale behind Qatar’s support for Hamas is that Islamist groups are proliferating and will inevitably play a greater role in the region. But with the collapse of Islamist currents in the Arab region, this support is not bringing anything, especially as new shifts and alliances in the region require recalculation and the use of financial support to preserve Qatar’s interests and weight in the region and the world.

The website expected Doha to re-read the Palestinian scene; Qatar does not need to continue to support Hamas as long as the movement does not weigh in on its new regional and international relations; Qatar spent millions of dollars in relationship with Hamas.