Israeli officials have directly contradicted President Trump’s claim that he learned about an Israeli airstrike in Qatar last week only after missiles were already in the air.

A new report from Axios cites several Israeli officials who said that the White House knew about the air strike prior to missiles being launched by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military.

“If Trump had wanted to stop it, he could have,” one of the senior Israeli officials who spoke to Axios said. “In practice, he didn’t.”

That official said that the U.S. had been informed of the planned strike, which targeted senior Hamas officials gathered in Qatar, “well in advance.”

The disclosure comes after Trump condemned the attacks and wrote on Truth Social that “This was a decision made by Prime Ministe

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