QATAR PERSPECTIVE

Qatar reads the Israeli strike on Beirut through the lens of the Iran-US negotiations: the operation came on the very day Donald Trump declared a 'very good chance' of reaching a deal with Tehran, and as Brent crude fell 7.8% below $101. Doha does not believe in coincidence. Al Jazeera documents that the April 17 Lebanon-Israel ceasefire was precisely a 'key Iranian demand in its negotiations with Washington' — shattering it on May 6, at the most delicate moment in talks, looks like sabotage. Al Jazeera's correspondent in Tyre notes that 'there was a tacit understanding that Beirut would not be targeted during this ceasefire' — and that understanding has just been unilaterally broken. Over 2,700 Lebanese dead since March 2, 152 attacks on health infrastructure documented by WHO Director Tedros, 3 hospitals closed: Doha documents the human toll that Jerusalem erases from its narrative.