Mourners gather as Hamas leader Haniyeh is buried in Qatar

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Mourners gather as ****** leader Haniyeh is ******* in Qatar

The burial ceremony for ****** chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Iran on Wednesday, is under way in Qatar.

******** prayers for Haniyeh will take place at the Imam Muhammed bin Abdul Wahhab mosque – the largest in Qatar – before he is ******* at a ********* in Lusail, a city north of Doha.

Prominent figures in the ****** movement – including his predecessor as leader, Khaled Meshaal – stood on the tarmac at Doha airport as the plane carrying Haniyeh’s coffin landed from Iran on Thursday afternoon.

Haniyeh was ******* during a visit to Iran’s capital. Iran and its allies have blamed *******, though ******* has not claimed responsibility for his ******.

****** said that “***** and Islamic leaders” and those involved with other ************ factions would attend, as well as members of the public.

Turkey and Pakistan announced a day of mourning on Friday in honour of Haniyeh, while ****** has called for “roaring anger marches… from every mosque” to take place after Friday prayers to protest Haniyeh’s ********.

At a separate ******** ceremony for Haniyeh which took place in Tehran on Thursday, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed that ******* would suffer a “harsh punishment” for the ********.

Haniyeh had been based in Doha since about 2019. The ****** political office moved to the Qatari capital in 2012, following the closure of its previous office in Damascus, Syria.

Haniyeh had played a key role in indirect talks with ******* over a potential ceasefire deal for the war in Gaza.

The heads of the CIA, Mossad and the intelligence services of Egypt and Qatar had attended negotiations in Doha

Haniyeh’s burial caps a week of soaring tensions in the Middle East, which escalated with the ******** of 12 children and teenagers in a strike on the ********-occupied Golan Heights.

******* accused Hezbollah and vowed “severe” retaliation, though Hezbollah denied it was involved.

Days later, senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr was ******* in a targeted ******** air strike in Beirut. Four others, including two children, were also *******.

Hours after that, Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran, ******’s main backer. He was visiting to attend the inauguration of Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian.

******* has not claimed responsibility for the **************, but ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said afterward that ******* delivered “crushing blows” to Iran’s proxy groups in recent days.

A senior ****** official told the BBC the ******** took place in the same building where Haniyeh had stayed during previous visits to Iran. Three ****** leaders and a number of guards were with him in the same building, they said.

The circumstances around his ****** remain unclear.

The ******** of Haniyeh left the leadership of ****** in “a state of shock”, top ****** officials told the BBC.

Khalil al-Hayya, a senior ****** official, told a news conference that a missile hit Haniyeh “directly”, citing witnesses who were with him.

But a report in the New York Times, which cites seven officials, says Haniyeh was ******* by a ***** that had been smuggled two months ago into the building where he was staying.

The BBC has not been able to verify either of these claims.

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