U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said he was unaware of “the sequence” of events leading up to Israel’s missile strike on Qatar.
Israel launched missiles at Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, saying Hamas leadership was present in the city at the time. It remains unclear which members were targeted or whether they were killed in the strike.
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“How could the U.S. Military be the last to know and not get a heads up?” MSNBC anchor Richard Engel asked Huckabee on Ana Cabrera Reports on Wednesday.
“I don’t know because I wasn’t privy to what the timeline was, when the decisions were made, and how they were executed,” Huckabee said.
“So I don’t know what the sequence was yesterday when everything went down, and who notified who, when they notified them. I simply have never been told those pieces of information,” Huckabee continued.
A senior White House official confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Israel gave President Donald Trump and his national security team “advance notice” of the airstrike but did not say whether Israel asked Trump to sign off on the operation. White House press secretary Karoline Levitt confirmed that the White House was made aware of the operation on Tuesday morning, the day of the strike.
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Once the White House was notified, Trump directed Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff to warn Qatari officials of the strike.
Israeli Foreign Minister Ron Dermer met with Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and former White House adviser, on Monday in Miami, Florida, a day before the strike.