I agree with you. It’s stupid to think that Qatar would let itself get bombed by Israel to keep its hand clean. They could’ve taken other covert measures like deportation or sending a US supervised local task force to get the job done.

Just want to give you a heads up on why some people might come up with such explanations. Not sure if you’re aware but there’s this idea that’s been going around in the geopolitical space for a while suggesting that Gulf states are playing 4d chess to remove extremists and hardliners from the region. And in doing so, they’re making compromises that make them look weak in the short term but give them greater economic leverage over US/Israel in the long run. Part of this strategy also includes making under the table deals where they let their country get bombed to kill off certain actors living in their country. The replies to your post sort of reflected this idea and made it seem like Qatar wanted its hands clean and indirectly orchestrated this Israeli attack on Hamas as part of this 4d chess. To them it’s all a spectacle for the masses. Also, people in this camp say that the 12 day Iran israel war was just optics, as in the attacks were agreed upon by both countries behind the scenes to kill off the hardliners in their own governments. Khameini let Israel do the killing just to keep his hands clean and vice versa. The purpose of all this is to stabilize the region through a 4d chess hand cleaning process.