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 the at Imam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Mosque, Doha’s largest mosque, after Friday prayers, with the burial carried out at a cemetery in Lusail, north of the Qatari capital.
The Hamas statement added the ceremony in Doha would be held “with popular and factional attendance and the participation of Arab and Islamic leaders.”
Iran declared three days of mourning following the killing of Haniyeh in Tehran in an attack blamed on arch-foe Israel.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran announced three days of public mourning following the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh,” the government said in a statement.
