Palestinian group Hamas' top leader Ismail Haniyeh meets with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran, Iran, July 30, 2024.
The body of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh has arrived in Qatar where it will be laid to rest following his assassination in Iran on Wednesday by Israel. A large crowd of mourners flooded Tehran’s streets in the early hours yesterday during the funeral procession. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led the funeral prayers as thousands gathered at the Tehran University to bid farewell to the late Hamas official and his bodyguard, who was killed in the same attack. According to a statement by Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Wednesday, Haniyeh's body will be buried in Doha today.