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Thousands attend Hamas leader Haniyeh’s funeral in Qatar, call for end against Israeli’s impunity in Palestine

Thousands of worshippers attended the funeral prayers for Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar on Friday, August 2 after he was assassinated during a trip to the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Wednesday. The head of Hamas abroad, Khaled Meshal, thanks Qatar for standing by the Palestinian people, while people chanted 'Our souls, our blood, we sacrifice for you, Al-Aqsa' as Haniyeh's coffin was moved out of Imam Abd Al-Wahhab Mosque to be transported to Lusail for burial.

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Thousands attend Hamas leader Haniyeh’s funeral in Qatar, call for end against Israeli’s impunity in Palestine

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* Haniyeh’s blood will ‘bring victory, dignity and liberation”: Khalil al-Hayya

Hamas’ top leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was buried in Qatar on Friday following his assassination in the Iranian capital, Tehran, as senior officials in the Palestinian group and other mourners said their fight against Israel would intensify, Reuters reports.

His death was one in a series of killings of senior Hamas figures as the war in Gaza between Hamas and Israel nears its 11th month and concern grows that the conflict is spreading across the Middle East.

Hamas and Iran have both accused Israel of carrying out Haniyeh’s killing and have pledged to retaliate against their foe. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the death nor denied it.

Haniyeh was laid to rest in a cemetery in the city of Lusail after a funeral ceremony at the Iman Mohamed Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab Mosque in Qatar’s capital, Doha.

His coffin, draped in the Palestinian flag, was carried in a procession past hundreds of people along with the casket of his bodyguard, who was killed in the same attack in Tehran on Wednesday.

Mourners at the ceremony included Khaled Meshaal, who is tipped to be the new Hamas leader. Other senior Hamas officials and Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, also attended.

Shaikh Tamim, the Emir of Qatar, and his father, also attended the funeral of martyr Ismail Haniyeh.
Haniyeh will be buried in the royal graveyard of Qatar, where elders of the Al Thani family are buried. Khalid Mashal especially thanked Emir of Qatar for this and called it an… pic.twitter.com/dmuidR9Wek

— Ibn Sufyan (@IbnSufyan313) August 2, 2024

Senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, told Reuters by phone: “Our message to the Occupation (Israel) today is that you are sinking deep in the mud and your end is getting closer than ever. The blood of Haniyeh will change all equations.”

Khaled Suleiman, who was among the mourners at the mosque, told Reuters: “Today (Friday) we came … to affirm that the resistance will not end with the martyrdom of the leader, and behind the leader comes a new leader.”

“God willing, all of us will continue and all of us are on the way to the liberation of Al-Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem), Palestine and Gaza, God willing.”

Haniyeh was killed by a missile that hit him directly in a state guesthouse in Tehran where he was staying, senior Hamas official, Khalil Al-Hayya, said in Tehran.

Khalil Al-Hayya, Deputy Head of Hamas in Gaza, stated that Lebanon, Iran, and the resistance will not allow the assassination of the national leader Ismail Haniyeh to go unpunished, and neither will our resistance and the Al-Qassam Brigades.

More details:https://t.co/hUwjrn4hym pic.twitter.com/N7GpC3qU3Y

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 31, 2024

Al-Hayya, Hamas’s deputy head in Gaza, was among the group’s senior officials who attended Ismail Haniyeh’s funeral in Doha.

Al-Hayya conveyed a message to several of Haniyeh’s relatives at the ceremony: “We are sure that his [Haniyeh’s] blood will bring out victory, dignity and liberation,” he said.

Al-Hayya also emphasised that Haniyeh was “no better or dearer” than the thousands of children killed in Gaza during the war, reported the Associated Press news agency.

The strike was one of several recent hits that have killed senior figures in Hamas or the Lebanese movement, Hezbollah, in a conflict that is now stretching from Gaza to the Red Sea and the Lebanon-Israel border and beyond.

In the United States, US President Joe Biden said Haniyeh’s killing was not helpful to international efforts to secure a ceasefire in the war in Gaza.

“It doesn’t help,” Biden told reporters on Thursday, when asked if the action ruined the chances of a truce.

Qatar has been leading the peace effort along with Egypt and the United States, Israel’s main ally.

Widow mourns

Haniyeh was the face of Hamas’ international diplomacy as an Israeli offensive destroyed Gaza.

He was seen by many diplomats as a pragmatist compared to the more hard-line members of the group inside Gaza, although some Israeli commentators have said he was considered by some on the Israeli side as an obstacle to a deal.

Three of his sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the besieged enclave in April along with four of his grandchildren, Hamas said.

Martyred Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh’s widow receives his body in Doha. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother of martyrs, as well as the sister and aunt of martyrs.#IsmailHaniyeh #Palestine #Iran #Israel #Doha pic.twitter.com/VtGgAzjcSR

— Hoopoeplatform (@Hoopoeplatform1) August 2, 2024

For Palestinian supporters, the Hamas leadership are fighters for liberation from Israeli occupation, keeping their cause alive when international diplomacy has failed them.

To Israelis and Western states, Hamas, which has directed suicide bombings in Israel and fought frequent wars against it, is a terrorist group bent on Israel’s destruction.

Appointed to the Hamas top job in 2017, Haniyeh moved between Turkiye and Doha, escaping the travel curbs of the blockaded Gaza Strip.

In May, the International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s office requested arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders, including Haniyeh, as well as Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for alleged war crimes. Israel and Palestinian leaders have dismissed the allegations.

While Israel has not said it carried out Haniyeh’s killing, it has announced that an air strike it mounted last month assassinated Hamas military leader, Mohammed Deif, in Gaza. Hamas has not confirmed or denied the death of Deif.

Hezbollah said that its senior military commander, Fuad Shukr, had been killed in an Israeli strike on a building in Beirut on Tuesday and it vowed a “definite” response to his killing.

– Middle East Monitor

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