Funeral prayer for martyred Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh offered at Imam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Mosque in Qatar

DOHA, August  02 (SABAH): Funeral prayer for martyred Chairman of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas’s Political Bureau Dr. Ismail Haniyeh was offered in Qatar on Friday at Imam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Mosque.

Emir of the State of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Emir Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Engineer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, Al-Fatah delegation and a large number of people from different countries attended the funeral prayer.

Ismail Haniyeh had resided in Doha along with other members of the Hamas political office. Ismail Haniyeh will be buried at a cemetery in Lusail, north of the Qatari capital.

Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard Wasim Abu Usman were martyred in the pre-dawn attack on their accommodation in Tehran early Wednesday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said.

He had traveled to Iran to attend Tuesday’s swearing-in of President Masoud Pezeshkian. Israel, accused by Hamas, Iran and others of the attack, has not directly commented on it.

The Hamas leader’s martyrdom came just hours after Israel struck a southern suburb of Beirut, killing Fuad Shukr, the military commander of Hamas-allied Lebanese group Hezbollah.

The killings are the latest of several incidents that have inflamed regional tensions during the Gaza war which has drawn in Iran-backed militant groups in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.

A public funeral ceremony for Haniyeh was held in Tehran on Thursday with crowds of mourners paying their respects.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led prayers for Haniyeh having earlier threatened “harsh punishment” for his killing.