Israel’s shock airstrikes against Qatar appear to have lit a fire under the President Donald Trump administration’s efforts to end the brutal war in Gaza—even as agreement on terms of any ceasefire remains uncertain as ever.

Qatar’s emir has described last month’s bombing attack against a residential compound in Doha, which killed several members of Hamas’ senior political leadership along with a Qatari security officer, as “a flagrant violation of its sovereignty and security, and a clear violation of the rules and principles of international law.”

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who’s married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka and holds an informal Middle East advisory role in his administration, were initially dismayed by what they felt was a blow to their work hammering o

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