Ismail Haniyeh Cemetery Held In Iran Thursday, Buried In Qatar Friday

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Wikimedia Commons/council.gov.ru)

JAKARTA - The funeral ceremony and burial of the Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh will be held in two days and in different countries.

The Hamas group said on Wednesday the late Haniyeh would be buried on Friday in Doha, Qatar, a day after a public funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran.

Hamas said in a statement the "official and open" funeral ceremony would be held in Tehran on Thursday, before its body was brought to Doha for burial on Friday as a led leader of the martyr movement," quoted from Al Arabiya July 31.

Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an attack on his residence in Tehran. Hamas confirmed it on Wednesday morning.

Haniyeh was in Iran to attend the inauguration ceremony of the elected president Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday afternoon.

Earlier, he met Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Pezeshkian on two separate occasions before attending the inauguration.

Iran announced three days of mourning following the killing of Haniyeh in Tehran in an alleged attack on its arch-enemy, Israel.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran announced three days of mourning for the public following the martyr Ismail Haniyeh," the government said in a statement.