SpaceWar.com reports: “Israel’s UN envoy defended targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar as the ‘right’ decision on Wednesday, after the strikes on the US ally’s soil drew a rare rebuke from President Donald Trump.

The White House said Trump did not agree with Israel’s decision to take military action on Tuesday and had warned Qatar in advance of the incoming strikes.

But Qatar, which hosts a large US military base and has spearheaded repeated rounds of Gaza truce efforts, said it had not received the warning from Washington until the deadly attack was already under way.

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, sought to justify the decision, telling an Israeli radio station: ‘We don’t always act in the interests of the United States.’

‘We are coordinated, they give us incredible support, we appreciate that, but sometimes we make decisions and inform the United States,’ he said.

‘It was not an attack on Qatar; it was an attack on Hamas,’ Danon told 103FM…”