US President Donald Trump says Israel must be “very careful” about how it handles Qatar.

At Morristown Airport in New Jersey, Trump is asked by a reporter whether he has a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding last week’s Israeli strikes on Hamas leaders in Qatar, which appear to have failed to take them out.

“My message is that they have to be very, very careful. They have to do something about Hamas, but Qatar has been a great ally to the United States,” Trump answers.

After dining with Doha’s ruler Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani on Friday, the US president calls him a “wonderful person” and adds that he has told him Qatar needs “better public relations” since “people talk of it so badly, and they shouldn’t be.”