Asenior Qatari official has told Newsweek that the nation and its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) partners were planning to convey to President Donald Trump a drastic change in regional views toward Israel as a result of its recent strike in Doha.

Speaking on the eve of the high-level week of the United Nations General Assembly that will bring leaders and top officials from across the world to New York City, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari described the Israeli strike that targeted a Hamas office in the Qatari capital, killing six people, including 22-year-old Qatari Internal Security Force Lance Corporal Badr Saad Mohammed al-Humaidi al-Dosari, as "a moment that changed Qatari society forever."

"For the first time in our history, one of our own was killed by an airstrike on our country," al-Ansari, who also serves as adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, said, "an airstrike that wasn't warranted, had nothing to do with Qatari participation in any kind of violent conflict, anywhere, and was a direct result of Qatar choosing to be an actor for peace."

The effects of the September 9 strike, which al-Ansari said took place as Hamas officials met to discuss a new ceasefire proposal to the ongoing war in Gaza that Qatar has played a key role in mediating, have reverberated far beyond the peninsular nation of around 2.6 million people bordering Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf.

"This has changed the region forever," al-Ansari said. "Our region post the ninth of September is not the same region as it was before."

At a time when Israel was looking to expand its Abraham Accord agreements, al-Ansari said that the unprecedented attack "didn't just change Qatari society, it changed GCC perception of the threat" posed by Israel for the first time in the history of the six-member bloc that also includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

"We have total confidence in our neighbors and our relationship with them, and we know that they will take steps as they see fit," al-Ansari said, "but in accordance with, as I said, the new threat perception in the region, we are here now, collectively in New York."

"There are meetings that will be held between the GCC and President Trump, and one of the main messages that will be conveyed is that new threat perception in the region, and how our relationship with the U.S. needs to address this new threat perception," he added. "And we have total confidence not only in our shared belief of security in the region, but in the partnership with the United States for it."