The Qatari Embassy in America responded, on Friday evening, to being attacked by a member of the US House of Representatives’ US Intelligence Committee with a video of an interview with one of its members, which it published on its official page on the X platform (formerly Twitter), in which it threatened repercussions. “If you touch a single hair” of the American hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

A member of the US Intelligence Committee, Waltz Press, said in the interview he gave on the American Fox News channel: “We need to send a very clear message to Hamas’s supporters, whether they are Turkey, Qatar or others... that if you touch a hair on the head of an American, they will all feel... "With the repercussions, and not just the Hamas leadership itself."

The Qatari embassy responded in a blog post on its page on the

It continued in a separate blog post: “Not only is this counterproductive to Qatar’s efforts in the ongoing negotiations, but it also poses a direct threat to the US ally. Spreading these false narratives creates obstacles to constructive mediation efforts.”

It is noteworthy that Majid Al-Ansari, spokesman for the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs and advisor to the Qatari Prime Minister, said in a previous interview with CNN anchor Becky Anderson that the Qatari hostage negotiations are continuing despite the escalation on the ground, but the efforts have become more difficult, adding that the work team responsible for Mediating hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas is “working around the clock,” and that the escalation on the ground is making the situation “vastly more difficult.”