Qatar Does Not Allow Any Attacks From Al-Udeid Base

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Qatar insists it will not allow any attacks carried out against any country, from Al-Udeid Air Base, which houses the largest US military facility in the Middle East.

"The Qatari state does not accept the launch of attacks or wars from the Al-Udeid Base against countries in the region or outside the region," said Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman as reported by ANTARA from Anadolu, Wednesday, October 16.

Qatar hosts about 13,000 US troops in Base Al-Udeid, according to previous information reported by Qatar's Al Jazeera channel.

"Relationship with the United States is a strategic partnership characterized by cooperation at various levels, while emphasizing that each party has full sovereignty, and no one intervenes in other parties' affairs," said bin Abdulrahman.

Iran is on high alert to anticipate a possible Israeli military response to Tehran's missile strike on October 1.

The attack is referred to in retaliation for the recent killings of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders, as well as Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders.

Regarding efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, Qatar's prime minister said, "For more than a year, we have been mediating on Gaza, but unfortunately, the deal requires two parties."

Bin Abdulrahman said Qatar had made extensive contact with Lebanese side to help stop the war in Lebanon.

Lebanese's main crisis is a war that has displaced 1.2 million Lebanese, not a presidential issue, he said, referring to the vacancy in the presidency in Lebanon.

Since September 23, Israel has launched a massive air military operation in Lebanon that it claims targeted the Hezbollah group, killing more than 1,500 people and causing more than 1.34 million people to flee.

The airstrike campaign is an escalation of a year-long cross-border conflict between Israel and Hezbollah since the onset of an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 42,400 people, mostly women and children, since last year's Hamas resistance attacks.

Israel expanded this conflict on October 1 by launching a ground attack on southern Lebanon.