Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announces a national day of mourning today for the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Palestinian flags will be flown at half staff for the day, the Palestinian official news agency Wafa reports.
Abbas’s political movement Fatah has been opposed to Hamas since the latter wrested control over the Gaza Strip in 2007 and killed and ousted hundreds of Fatah members.
Iran meanwhile declares three days of mourning for Haniyeh, state media reports.
Hamas says that a funeral for Haniyeh will be held in Tehran on Thursday and then his body will be transferred to Qatar’s capital Doha for prayers and burial.
The ceremony will take place in the national mosque of Qatar, the largest in the country.
Haniyeh will be buried in Lusail, north of Doha, in the same cemetery where the founder of the State of Qatar Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani is interred.
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