DUBAI: Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh will likely be buried in Qatar on Friday (Aug 2) following his assassination within the Iranian capital Tehran, one in a sequence of killings of senior figures within the Palestinian militant group because the battle between Israel and Hamas in Gaza rages.
Haniyeh will likely be interred in a cemetery after funeral prayers within the metropolis of Lusail, north of Qatar’s capital Doha.
Hamas politburo member Izzat al-Rishq referred to as on folks to hope for his soul in all mosques around the globe.
“Let immediately, Friday, be a day of overwhelming anger denouncing the assassination crime and rejecting the genocide within the Gaza Strip,” he mentioned in an announcement.
Haniyeh was killed by a missile that hit him instantly in a state guesthouse in Tehran the place he was staying, senior Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya informed a information convention within the Iranian capital, quoting witnesses who had been with him.
Iran and Hamas have each accused Israel of finishing up the killing and have pledged to retaliate in opposition to their foe. Israel has not claimed accountability for the dying nor denied it.
The strike was one in all a number of which have killed senior figures in Hamas or the Lebanese motion Hezbollah, fuelling concern that the battle in Gaza between Israel and Palestinian militants is popping right into a regional battle stretching from the Pink Sea to the Lebanon-Israel border and past.
In the US, US President Joe Biden mentioned Haniyeh’s killing was not useful to worldwide efforts to safe a ceasefire within the battle in Gaza, now in its tenth month.
“It does not assist,” Biden informed reporters on Thursday when requested if the motion ruined the probabilities of a truce.
Qatar has been main the peace effort together with Egypt and the US, Israel’s important ally.
