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‘Detrimental consequences’: QatarEnergy CEO warned against energy attacks on Iran
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>QatarEnergy CEO Saad al-Kaabi says he repeatedly warned any attack on Iran’s energy sites could put Qatar’s own gas infrastructure in danger.</p>
<p>“I was always warning, talking to executives from oil and gas that are partnered with us, talking to the US secretary of energy, to warn him of that consequence and that that could be detrimental to us,” al-Kaabi told Reuters news agency.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Qatari officials said that Iranian missile strikes caused “significant damage” at Ras Laffan Industrial City, located 80km from the capital, Doha. The Qatari hub is responsible for a fifth of the world's liquefied natural gas (LNG).</p>
<p>The site was already the subject of an attack on 2 March, which suspended production. </p>
<p>Qatar was able to avoid any fatalities at the attacked Ras Laffan site because of its quick evacuation of personnel, al-Kaabi added.</p>
<p>“It wasn’t easy to pull everybody from offshore – you know 10,000 people evacuated in 24 hours – and shut down all the operations,” he said. “I’m so glad we have zero injuries, zero fatalities. It is because of that decision we took.”</p>
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![⭕️ “There were at least 10 to 20 more injuries in the second strike. People had gathered around the jeep and [the area] was bombed.”
Footage captured by Drop Site contributor Mohammed Ahmed shows the body of Palestinian journalist Mohammed Washah being brought to Al-Shifa hospital after a direct Israeli strike on his car, west of Gaza City. Several wounded individuals are also seen carried into the hospital.
Paramedic Mahmoud Muhanna told Drop Site that after Washah’s car was hit, a second strike injured scores of people who gathered at the scene. “The jeep was hit, and the martyr’s body was transported. After that, the location was targeted again. Dozens were injured,” Muhanna said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:avtgggryiqtjlg5wwsufccua/bafkreievrqqjhg7jgtrngczxtewdp45l3skscminarbyj3ckr6uv4lbeui)
