Qatar is demanding that Israel apologises for its strike on Doha as a precondition to a resumption of its role as mediator between Israel and Hamas in Gaza ceasefire negotiations.
The strike, conducted on 9 September and intended to kill Hamas' top leadership, sparked fury from Qatar and neighbouring states for violating Qatari sovereignty.
Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani requested the apology during a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Doha on Tuesday, according to Axios.
The requests also arose during Rubio's meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Envoy Steve Witkoff and Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer.
The report added that Qatar is willing to be flexible on the language used in the apology, and could agree to an apology that highlights the Qatari security official killed, compensates his family, and promises not to strike Qatar again.
The strike, which was conducted in Doha's diplomatic quarter, killed five other people, all lower-level Hamas officials, and injured several civilians.
Additionally, Netanyahu understands the action as a miscalculation following the sharp response from the region, which saw a joint emergency summit between the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on the issue.
The summit resulted in a statement calling for states to review their diplomatic and economic relations with Israel, and coordinate in suspending Israel's membership of the UN.
It also reignited discussions of a NATO-style Arab force in the region, led by second Gaza mediator, Egypt, although said discussions were held on the sidelines of the summit.
The tensions between Gaza's mediators and Israel have also seen reports of an Egyptian military buildup in the Sinai over fears that Israel will forcibly displace millions of Palestinians into the Sinai, an Egyptian red line.
Israel's war on Gaza has seen significant regional spillover, with Israel fighting a war against Hezbollah in South Lebanon in 2024 and a 12-day war against Iran in June this year.
It has also conducted airstrikes against Yemen's Houthis, on the occupied West Bank, and is suspected to have attacked a Gaza-bound flotilla in Tunisia.
Israel's relations globally also soured over its conduct in Gaza, which is increasingly being recognised as a genocide, and creeping annexation of the occupied West Bank, prompting Western backlash and an initiative to recognise a State of Palestine.