A Tale of Two Countries: The Rights and Obligations of Saudi Arabia and the United States as Third-Party States Arising out of the September 2025 Israeli Airstrikes on Qatar

By Omar Khoury On September 9, 2025, Israel executed a series of airstrikes targeting a meeting of senior Hamas political figures in Doha, Qatar.[1] Israel’s attack has been denounced—in artfully worded condemnations exhausting the inexhaustible thesaurus—as a flagrant violation of international law and Qatari sovereignty.[2] However, two other States appear to have been implicated in […]