{"id":65298,"date":"2026-06-29T11:29:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=65298"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:29:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:29:59","slug":"qatar-and-saudi-arabia-buy-advanced-israeli-systemsdocuments-and-photographs-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/qatar-and-saudi-arabia-buy-advanced-israeli-systemsdocuments-and-photographs-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar and Saudi Arabia Buy Advanced Israeli Systems,Documents and Photographs Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"Middle East Monitoring Desk Islamabad\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Israeli Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries sold hundreds of millions of shekels’ worth of missile defense systems and components for advanced jets to Saudi Arabia and Qatar<\/strong><\/h5>\n

According to a report published in Haaretz, advanced Israeli defense systems have been sold to Qatar and Saudi Arabia, including missile defense systems and combat helmets for their advanced F-15 fighter jets, documents and photographs reveal.<\/p>\n

As he sought to downplay the severity of the so-called Qatargate scandal involving his close aides’ business ties to Qatar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the Gulf state as “a complicated country.” On other occasions, however, he backed legislation designating it a state sponsor of terrorism and ordered strikes targeting senior Hamas figures in its capital.<\/p>\n

Qatar’s “complexity” is also reflected in its covert ties with Israel, which have included exports of sophisticated Israeli defense systems \u2013 among them systems designed to protect the life of Qatar’s emir. When Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani flew to Tehran last year, his aircraft was equipped with an air defense system manufactured by Israel-based Elbit Systems.<\/p>\n

Unlike the Abraham Accords countries \u2013 the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco \u2013 which maintain extensive security ties with Israel, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have no official diplomatic relations with the country.<\/p>\n

In June last year, Maariv reported that Netanyahu had approved more than $100 million worth of defense deals with Qatar.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Haaretz-TheMarker revealed that a company whose partners include a former senior Mossad official and retired IDF Major General Yoav (Poli) Mordechai \u2013 both of whom are suspects in the investigation into alleged ties between Qatar and Netanyahu’s aides \u2013 represented Israeli defense firms Rafael and Elbit Systems in negotiations with Qatar, and also held talks with Israel Aerospace Industries over potential deals in the country.<\/p>\n

In August, Calcalist reported that Mordechai and his partner had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in brokerage fees since 2018 from deals involving Elbit Systems sold to protect aircraft used by Qatar’s ruling family.<\/p>\n

The Qatari royal fleet consists of 11 aircraft used, among other things, by Qatar’s emir and prime minister on their trips abroad. An analysis of publicly available photographs of the aircraft shows that three of them \u2013 two\u00a0Boeing 747s\u00a0and an\u00a0Airbus A340-500\u00a0\u2013 were fitted with Elbit’s C-MUSIC system, known in Israel as Magen Rakia. The systems were installed at various points between 2020 and 2022, while the aircraft were undergoing maintenance in Basel.<\/p>\n

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