Qatar’s prime minister excoriated Israeli Prime Minister Benajamin Netanyahu in an interview with CNN on Wednesday, calling Israel’s attempted assassination of Hamas leaders in Doha “barbaric.”

Netanyahu’s bombing of Doha was the action of a ‘madman’ who is attacking international rules-based order, warns senior Qatari official

Judges overseeing Netanyahu’s cases reject his lawyers’ request and rule that, starting in November, the trial will hold four hearings per week.

Qatar hit back at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a strongly worded statement early on Thursday, describing his remarks about the Gulf country's hosting of a Hamas office as "reckless".

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be required to testify three times a week in his corruption trial starting in November, with the total number of hearings per week bumped up to four, the judges overseeing the case rule,

The warning came just hours after two gunmen opened fire at a Jerusalem bus stop, killing six people. Hamas has claimed responsibility.

Statements by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday notably left out any mention of whether the Hamas leaders were killed. As of Wednesday night, Israeli officials have yet to publicly provide clear indications of the state of the Hamas leaders in Qatar whom they tried to assassinate on Tuesday.