Israeli army radio said Israel tried to attack Hamas officials in Qatar on Tuesday.

Qatar's Al Jazeera television, citing a Hamas source, said the attack targeted Hamas Gaza ceasefire negotiators.

Several blasts were heard in Qatar's Doha on Tuesday, Reuters witnesses said.

Israel media, citing a senior Israeli official, said the attack was aimed at top Hamas leaders including Khalil al-Hayya, its Gaza chief.

Smoke was seen rising over the Katara District in the capital, an eyewitness said.

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In May 2011, then-senior Hamas official, Khalil Al-Hayya took part in an event to clean the streets of Gaza City.

GAZA CITY, GAZA (FILE - MAY 1, 2011) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. THEN-SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL KHALIL AL-HAYYA SWEEPING STREET DURING MAY 1 EVENT, SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE

2. AL-HAYYA TALKING TO REPORTERS

3. AL-HAYYA AT EVENT, SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE

n January 2012, Hamas agreed to release control of a house belonging to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, which it had seized in a 2007 civil war in the Gaza Strip, Hamas and Fatah officials said.

The move was the first substantial step to be taken since leaders of Hamas and Abbas's Fatah faction signed an Egyptian brokered reconciliation accord in Cairo in May 2011.

GAZA CITY, GAZA (FILE - JANUARY 14, 2012) (REUTERS - Access all)

4. FATAH AND HAMAS DELEGATIONS AT MEETING WITH THEN-HAMAS GAZA LEADER, ISMAIL HANIYEH SEATED IN THE MIDDLE

5. HAMAS DELEGATION SEATED AT MEETING INCLUDING THEN-SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL KHALIL AL-HAYYA (MIDDLE)

6. VARIOUS OF MEETING

7. HANIYEH AT MEETING

8. MORE OF MEETING

9. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) THEN-SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL, KHALIL AL-HAYYA, SAYING:

"Brother Abu Al-Abed (referring to Ismail Haniyeh) asked Fatah leaders to regain the house of the brother Abu Mazen (referring to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas), which is personal property.”

10. BOTH DELEGATIONS HEADING OUT

Then-senior Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya spoke to reporters in Gaza City on November 1 2013, as Gaza's sole power plant shut down due to fuel shortage, authorities said. Fuel supply had steadily decreased after Egypt in June 2013 stepped up a campaign to demolish smuggling tunnels along its border with the enclave which were a major import conduit. Al-Hayya said Gaza would manage to deal with the power shortages.

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11. VARIOUS OF ELECTRICITY PYLONS AT GAZA CITY

12. AL-HAYYA, SPEAKING TO REPORTERS

13. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) THEN-SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL, KHALIL AL-HAYYA, SAYING:

"We say to our Egyptian brothers, to the [Palestinian] Authority in Ramallah and to the whole world that the Palestinian people will not surrender to the siege. The power plant was shut today but we will not go backwards to live by the light of candles."

Palestinian took to the streets of Gaza City in March 2014, in protest against neighbouring Egypt's ban on activities of the Hamas Islamist group. Then-senior Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya said the decision by a Cairo court to ban Hamas' work and activity in the country was an attempt to "criminialise resistance" to Israel and would not deter it from its fight against the Jewish state.

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14. HAMAS SUPPORTERS PROTESTING EGYPT'S DECISION AGAINST THEIR MOVEMENT

15. VARIOUS OF HAMAS OFFICIALS STANDING IN THE PROTEST INCLUDING KHALIL AL-HAYYA (MIDDLE)

16. PROTESTERS HOLDING EGYPTIAN FLAGS AND HAMAS FLAGS

17. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) THEN-SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL, KHALIL AL-HAYYA, SAYING:

"We will resist the siege with all we have, and we will always be directed towards Jerusalem and our resistance will not drift away from Palestine and Al Aqsa mosque until we liberate our land and end the occupation."

Then-senior Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya attended a mass wedding in Gaza’s Rafah in 2017, where 100 couples tied the knot in front of their families and politicians. At the event, which was held by Hamas, Al-Hayya addressed the crowd, saying that the “Zionist enemy should be fought everywhere."

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18. THEN-SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL, KHALIL AL-HAYYA ATTENDING MASS WEDDING EVENT

19. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) THEN-SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL, KHALIL AL-HAYYA, SAYING:

"(We need) to be honest and have real national unity that believes in partnership, believes in facing the Zionist project, believes that Zionists are enemies and believes that the Zionist occupation is an enemy and not a neighbour, a friend or an ally. This Zionist enemy should be fought everywhere."

20. PEOPLE GATHERED AT EVENT

Then- senior Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya greeted Qatari envoy in November 2018 at a site near the border with Israel which has seen frequent demonstrations. Some Palestinian youth threw stones at the convoy of Doha's point-man for Gaza relief efforts, Mohammed Al-Emadi.

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21. THEN-DOHA’S POINT-MAN FOR GAZA RELIEF EFFORTS, MOHAMMED AL-EMADI (IN WHITE), GREETING HAMAS OFFICIAL, KHALIL AL-HAYYA, AT GAZA BORDER PROTEST VENUE / AL-EMADI WALKING BACK TO HIS CAR AND SAYING (Arabic): "Long live Gaza" / CONVOY LEAVING / YOUTH THROWING STONES AT CARS OF CONVOY AND RUNNING AFTER IT

A Hamas delegation met with the then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus in October 2022 after a decade long rift.

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22. PALESTINIAN CONVOY ARRIVING TO PRESS CONFERENCE HALL IN DAMASCUS AFTER MEETING THEN-SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD

23. VARIOUS OF AL-HAYYA AND OTHER PALESTINIAN FACTION OFFICIALS ARRIVING

Khalil Al-Hayya said in a press conference in Iran, that the missile that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh struck him "directly.”

TEHRAN, IRAN (FILE - JULY 31, 2024) (WANA - No use BBC Persian. No use VOA Persian. No use Manoto. No use Iran International)

24. VARIOUS OF PRESS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF HAMAS LEADER, ISMAIL HANIYEH IN IRAN

25. MICROPHONES / AL-HAYYA SEATED

26. ONGOING NEWS CONFERENCE

27. CAMERA RECORDING PRESS CONFERENCE

28. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) THEN-SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL, KHALIL AL-HAYYA, SAYING:

"As for the incident my dear brother - so far it is clear from witnesses who were with brother Ismail (Haniyeh) - it was a rocket that entered the room that the brother Ismail Haniyeh was in, and he was hit directly. And now we await full investigations from the concerned parties, our brothers, because this was clearly a rocket that destroyed glass and windows and some doors, as well as some walls."

29. PRESS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS

30. CAMERA RECORDING PRESS CONFERENCE

Hamas senior official Khalil Al-Hayya, among other Hamas members, at a mourning house in Doha for assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

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31. PEOPLE SITTING AND OFFERING CONDOLENCES AT MOURNING HOUSE SET UP FOR ASSASSINATED HAMAS LEADER, ISMAIL HANIYEH

32. PEOPLE OFFERING CONDOLENCES IN FRONT OF PHOTO OF HANIYEH

33. AL-HAYYA (MIDDLE) SEATED AT MOURNING HOUSE BETWEEN HANIYEH'S SONS

34. MORE OF MOURNING HOUSE WITH PEOPLE OFFERING CONDOLENCES

35. PEOPLE OFFERING CONDOLENCES TO HANIYEH'S SON / AL-HAYYA SEATED NEXT TO HIM

Hamas' acting Gaza chief Khalil Al-Hayya said in remarks broadcast on November 20 2024 that there would be no hostages-for-prisoners swap deal with Israel unless the war in the Palestinian enclave ended.

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36. HAMAS' ACTING GAZA CHIEF KHALIL AL-HAYYA AND UNKNOWN REPORTER SITTING DURING INTERVIEW

37. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) HAMAS' ACTING GAZA CHIEF, KHALIL AL-HAYYA, SAYING:

"We say very clearly that we want this aggression to stop. If the aggression is not ended, why would the resistance and in particular Hamas, return the prisoners (hostages)? Why would we return the Israeli captives in our hands if the war continues? How would a sane or an insane person lose a strong card he owns while the war is continuing?"

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with acting Hamas Chief Khalil Al-Hayya and two other leaders of the Palestinian group in Tehran on February 8 2025, Iranian state TV reported.

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38. VARIOUS OF IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI GREETING HAMAS' ACTING GAZA CHIEF KHALIL AL-HAYYA IN TEHRAN

39. VARIOUS OF KHAMENEI IN MEETING WITH SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIALS (L-R) NIZAR AWADALLAH, ACTING LEADER KHALIL AL-HAYYA AND HEAD OF POLITICAL COUNCIL OF HAMAS, MOHAMMAD DARWISH (OVERLAID WITH FARSI NARRATION)

Hamas' Gaza chief Khalil Al-Hayya, speaking during a commemoration of the 46th anniversary of the Iranian revolution in Tehran in February 2025, said plans of the West, the United States and U.S. President Donald Trump for the Gaza Strip were "doomed."

TEHRAN, IRAN (FILE - FEBRUARY 10, 2025) (IRIB – No use Iran. No use BBC Persian. No use VOA Persian. No use Manoto. No use Iran International)

40. PEOPLE GATHERING TO MARK THE 46TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION IN TEHRAN

41. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) HAMAS' GAZA CHIEF, KHALIL AL-HAYYA, SAYING (SOUNDBITE STARTS ON VIEW OF CROWDS IN THE STREET):

“Either victory or martyrdom. As for the projects of the West, America, and (U.S. President Donald) Trump, they are doomed, they will fall. We will bring them down as we brought down the projects before them."

42. PEOPLE GATHERING AND WAVING PALESTINIAN, IRANIAN AND HEZBOLLAH FLAGS

Hamas' Gaza chief said in April 2025, the group was ready to immediately negotiate a deal to swap all hostages for an agreed number of Palestinians jailed by Israel as part of a broader deal to end the war in the enclave. In a televised speech, Khalil Al-Hayya said the group refused an interim truce deal.

DOHA, QATAR (FILE - APRIL 17, 2025) (HAMAS MEDIA OFFICE - Access all)

43. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) HAMAS' GAZA CHIEF, KHALIL AL-HAYYA, SAYING:

"The partial agreements used by (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and his government are a cover for their political agenda, which is based on continuing the war, extermination and starvation, even if the price is sacrificing all his prisoners (hostages). We will not be part of passing this policy."