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The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) released a second round of incriminating documents which shed more light unto funds that were allegedly ordered to be transferred from Doha to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, which is claimed to have taken place at least twice in the past 12 years. These documents were leaked as part of the Raven Project, which involved the leak of dozens of Qatar related documents portraying with political and military figures across the world. According to Reuters, the documents originate in a leak led by ex-NSA agents working for actors in Qatar’s rival-neighbor, the UAE.

This round includes a 2012 classified "top secret" letter from then Qatari prime minister and foreign minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Aal Thani to then economy and finance minister Yousef Husain Kamal in which the prime minister explains the decision of the Qatari Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Aal Thani, to transfer a grant of $50 million to Netanyahu, and a second letter from the same year in which Kamal states that the money had been transferred to Netanyahu in cash by means of Qatar's State Security Service. Kamal's letter notes that Qatar's previous attempt to make a formal bank transfer, via the World Vision organization, had been unsuccessful. This allegation is reinforced by a series of Jordanian documents which MEMRI pledged to published later, in which HSBC bank in Amman explains the rejection of the transfer by Jordanian authorities arguing that they were inten.



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