Doha, Qatar – Thousands of individuals on Friday wentto the funeralservice prayer for the late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at Doha’s grand mosque amidst tight security.
Haniyeh’s funeralservice prayer was participatedin by numerous Palestinian factions, diaspora groups, diplomatic dignitaries and nationals from numerous nations. He was laid to rest at Lusail royal cemetery north of the capital Doha on Friday afternoon.
Symbolic funeral prayers for Haniyeh haveactually been arranged in anumberof Muslim nations, consistingof Yemen, Jordan and Turkey.
Streams of mourners began to showup at the Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Mosque at about 9am, more than 2 hours before the Friday prayer, to quote goodbye to the Hamas political chief who was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran in the early hours of Wednesday earlymorning.
Men and females, numerous of them using the keffiyeh, the standard Palestinian headscarf, and bring Palestinian flags, came to goto the funeralservice prayers inspiteof Doha’s penalizing heat, which hovered around 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).
His body was brought to Doha on Thursday after a memorial occasion in Tehran, which was participatedin by thousands of individuals and where funeralservice prayers were led by the nation’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranians waved Palestinian flags and brought images of the 62-year-old Hamas leader as they took part in the funeralservice procession.
Haniyeh, who was the diplomatic face of Hamas based in Qatar, was assassinated in his lodging in Tehran. He was in the Iranian capital to participatein the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Israel has not openly declared obligation. Fuad Shukr, a senior leader with the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, was likewise eliminated by Israel hours before Haniyeh’s assassination.
Tributes
Hassan Abu Dhr, who lost his leg and hand in an Israeli battle on Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp in November, came to the funeralservice prayer to pay homage to Haniyeh.
“We are in sorrow. We feel so unfortunate duetothefactthat of his killing. He was like our daddy,” the 24-year-old, who was left to Qatar for medical treatment, informed Al Jazeera. “Ismail Haniyeh was the pride of Gaza. We reliedon him, he was the finest leader for Gaza.”
Syed Ziaullah, a Pakistani nationwide, likewise participatedin the funeralservice prayers.
“I came here for him; it’s a relationship of brotherhood amongst Muslims,” Ziaullah informed Al Jazeera. “He is a martyr and a patriot who hadahardtime to totallyfree Palestine from Israeli profession.”
Others who were in presence were from various nations consistingof Sudan, India and Bangladesh.
Many individuals Al Jazeera spoke to revealed uniformity with Palestinians in Gaza, who haveactually been dealingwith Israeli barrage for the past 10 months. Vast swaths of Gaza haveactually been flattened and almost 40,000 individuals haveactually been eliminated consideringthat October 7, when Israel released its military offending in the wake of a Hamas-led attack inside its area. At least 1,100 individuals were eliminated throughout the attack in southern Israel.
“I am here in assistance of