Five Hamas officials and a Qatari security guard died as a result of the September 9 attack on Doha. Netanyahu in the Monday phone call apologized to the Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani. Importantly, President Trump himself was on the call, and so all of this seems the result of mediation by the US leader. Israeli media writes that “Netanyahu apologized for violating Qatari sovereignty in the strike. His own intelligence officials argued that this would effectively shut the door on any future negotiations with Hamas to get the hostages back.