Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said in an October 15, 2024 interview with Qatar TV that Qatar does not accept the launching of any wars or attacks on any country from the Al-Udeid Air Base. He added that Qatar has a "strategic partnership" with the United States and that it maintains an independent foreign policy from the United State, and the Americans understand this and do not intervene in it.
Interviewer: "Does the presence of Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar support the Israeli aggression against Palestine?"
Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani: "First of all, the presence of Al-Udeid Air Base or anything in Qatar... Qatar does not accept the launching of any attacks or wars from that base against countries and nations in the region and beyond.
"Secondly, we have a strategic partnership with the Americans on many levels. Of course, they have their own relations and they make their own sovereign decisions, which are not influenced by Qatar, and Qatar also has relations of its own, about which it makes its own sovereign decisions, and the U.S. also understands these decisions and does not intervene."