Qatar must choose between civilization and barbarism, the Prime Minister’s Office said late Saturday night following Qatar’s statements at the International Court of Justice debate.
At the court, it called Israel’s actions in Gaza a crime, and accused Israel of starving civilians and carrying out a “colonialist campaign.”
“The time has come for Qatar to stop playing both sides with its double talk and decide if it’s on the side of civilization or if it’s on the side of Hamas barbarism,” the PMO wrote.
“Israel is fighting a just war with just means. After the October 7 atrocities, Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu defined the war of revival [Israel-Hamas War] as a war between civilization and barbarism,” the statement added.Qatar later rejected the statements.
“The State of Qatar firmly rejects the inflammatory statements issued by the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, which fall far short of the most basic standards of political and moral responsibility,” Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said on X/Twitter early on Sunday.
Ansari criticized the portrayal of the Gaza conflict as a defense of civilization, likening it to historical regimes that used “false narratives to justify crimes against civilians.”