The Washington Post carried a report from the Qatari capital Doha, describing the domestic situation as "unstable". The newspaper said the mood in the Qatari capital is a mix of fear, uncertainty and resilience. Doha, Hanan bought extra suitcases on Friday. The Egyptian doctor, who has lived in this energy-rich nation for four years, had already gone to her bank and transferred some of her savings to Egypt. And she went to her children's schools to get their academic records. She's taking them — and any valuables she can carry — when she and her family fly to Cairo to see relatives in a few days. That's because they may not return. "All the Egyptians here are feeling unstable," said the doctor, who declined to give her family name because she feared repercussions. "We don't know what will happen. Maybe Qatar will ask us to leave or Egypt might ask us to come back." It's been a week since several Arab countries — led by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt — severed ties and imposed an economic blockade on Qatar after they accused it of supporting terrorism. The mood in this waterside Gulf capital is a mix of fear, uncertainty and resilience as residents struggle to cope with a political and diplomatic crisis few imagined would so dramatically upend their world. President Trump told reporters in Washington that Qatar has historically been a "funder of terrorism at a very high level", an accusation Qatar's government has strongly denied. Members of the Saudi-led bloc welcomed Trump's demand that Qatar end its "funding and its extremist ideology."
