Israel war on Gaza live: Funeral for Hamas leader Haniyeh held in Tehran
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By Lyndal Rowlands and Alastair Mccready
Published On 1 Aug 20241 Aug 2024
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The funeral for assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard has been held in Tehran, with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leading the prayers.
UN Security Council holds emergency meeting amid regional tensions after Haniyeh and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr assassinated. “The international community has a choice to make – let it be for peace and security, do not let Israel drag us all to the abyss,” Feda Abdelhady Nasser, Palestine’s deputy UN representative, told the council.
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6m ago
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Haniyeh assassination carried out amid Israel’s killing of thousands of Palestinians
University of Tehran’s Tohid Asadi said the funeral of Haniyeh in Tehran marked a “very sad moment” for many Iranians and people around the world who support the Palestinian cause.
“What adds to this sadness is the very fact that it takes place in the broader context in which the brutal Zionist regime is killing ordinary citizens on a daily basis. Thousands of them in the past months,” Asadi told Al Jazeera, referring to the war in Gaza.
“It’s more proof of Israeli aggression that takes place on the ground, targeting Iranian sovereignty,” Asadi said of the assassination of Haniyeh in Tehran.
“They are mad at this current, ongoing situation,” he said.
“Also added to that is the fact that [the killing] is taking place at a politically significant moment in Iranian history. It took place only hours after the new [Iranian] president’s inauguration, and that added to the complexity,” he added.
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16m ago
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WATCH: Funeral services for Ismail Haniyeh held in Tehran
The funeral for Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh has begun in Iran’s capital Tehran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has lead prayers for the assassinated Hamas leader at the University of Tehran.
Haniyeh’s body will then be transferred to Qatar’s capital Doha on Thursday afternoon, ahead of his burial on Friday.
Al Jazeera correspondent Resul Serdar has more:
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Funeral services for Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh begins in Tehran
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26m ago
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All Israeli government offers us is ‘endless war’: Lapid
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has condemned the government for failing to free the captives in Gaza while simultaneously dragging the country into an “endless” conflict.
“All the government offers us is more war, more war, and endless war, which will continue for years until we not only defeat them but also ourselves,” wrote Lapid in a post on X.
“It is our duty to remember that there is another way,” he said. “It is possible to negotiate a captive exchange and bring them back home.”
Translation: “Three hundred days since the disaster. For three hundred days the abductees have been underground and all the government offers us is another war and another war and a war forever, which will last years until we defeat not only them, but also ourselves. It is our duty on this day to remember that it is possible otherwise. You can do a hostage deal, bring them home.”
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36m ago
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‘They may kill Haniyeh but not his ideas’: Malaysia’s Mahathir
Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has issued a statement mourning Haniyeh’s assassination, saying Israel had killed the “great man” because it “feared and hated everything he stood for”.
Mahathir, who served as Malaysia’s premier for 24 years between 1981 and 2020, described Haniyeh as “a soft-spoken man, yet with the heart of a lion”.
“His courage to stand up for his people obviously stemmed from a clear conscience and guided by a moral compass that is based on humanity and religious conviction,” Mahathir said.
“They may kill Mr. Haniyeh but not his ideas and what he stood for,” he said.
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46m ago
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Malaysia asks Meta for explanation over removal of PM Anwar’s Facebook post
Malaysia’s Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil has said he has asked META.O for an explanation as to why a Facebook post by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim marking the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was removed from the platform.
Earlier, we reported that Anwar had described actions by Meta Platforms META.O as cowardly after the removal of his Facebook post featuring a recording of his phone call with a Hamas official offering his condolences over Haniyeh’s death.
Meta has yet to respond, Fadzil told reporters.
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56m ago
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Haniyeh given ‘same treatment’ as funeral for late Iranian president
The fact that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran has made his death all the more painful for the host nation and will likely push it to deliver a fiercer response, said Foad Izadi, an associate professor of world studies at Tehran University.
“When you have a high-ranking official assassinated in the capital city, this is a shock,” Izadi told Al Jazeera.
To honour Haniyeh’s life, Iran is giving him “the same treatment as Ebrahim Raisi”, the late Iranian president who died in a plane crash in May.
“This is something for the history books”, he said.
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‘The nation today is carrying his coffin’: Hamas official addresses Haniyeh funeral
Khalil al-Hayya, the deputy head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, has addressed the funeral service of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
“The nation today is carrying his coffin, and the nation today is raising the flag of jihad and resistance towards the goal of liberating Palestine and Jerusalem,” al-Hayya said.
“With the faith of our country, and the Palestinian soul, we are sure that the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh will bring anger towards this Zionist entity from the entire people of the world.”
A funeral is being held for Hamas political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, Iran [Majid Saeedi/Getty Images]
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1h ago
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Iran Supreme Leader Khamenei leads prayers at Haniyeh’s funeral
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has led funeral prayers at a memorial for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital, Tehran, according to the state-run Press TV.
Following prayers, the procession is set to head towards Azadi (Freedom) Square. Haniyeh’s body will then be flown to Doha for burial.
Haniyeh was assassinated at his accommodation in Tehran on Wednesday. Hamas has blamed Israel for the attack.
Haniyeh's family bid farewell to his body during his funeral procession in Tehran pic.twitter.com/Q2Z4Zrq300
— Press TV