People hold up the Palestinian flag and a portrait of assassinated Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh during a rally at Tehran University, in the Iranian capital Tehran on July 31, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Doha, Qatar: The burial of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh is to be held in Doha on Friday a day after a public funeral ceremony in Tehran, the Palestinian group said Wednesday.
Haniyeh "will be given an official and public funeral ceremony in the Iranian capital, Tehran, tomorrow," Hamas said in a statement, explaining his body would be transported to the Qatari capital later the same day.
It said funeral prayers will be held at the Imam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Mosque, Doha's largest mosque, after Friday prayers, with the burial carried out at a cemetery in Lusail.
