How Israeli ballistic missiles bypassed Gulf airspace and hit Qatar

Israeli fighter jets over the Red Sea launched ballistic missiles to target Hamas leaders in Qatar last week, a US defence official said, in what was a novel method likely designed to overcome the energy-rich country’s air defences and avoid entering any Mideast nation’s airspace.
The September 9 attack, which killed six people in Qatar’s capital, Doha, upended months of diplomacy mediated by the Arabian Peninsula nation to reach a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war that has devastated the enclave…