Hamas issues a statement announcing that its Qatar-based Gaza head of the terror group Khalil al-Hayya attended yesterday’s funeral for his “martyred” son Hammam, who was killed along with four other Hamas members and a Qatari security guard in the “treacherous” Tuesday Israeli strike targeting Hamas leaders in Doha.
The funeral was able to take place thanks to “special security arrangements” in Qatar, the Hamas statement adds.
The statement is an effective negation of initial rumors that the elder Hayya was killed in the Israeli strike, though Hamas doesn’t publish a corroborating photo.
Israel’s security establishment has begun to privately acknowledge that the strike was not successful in eliminating any of Hamas’s top leaders.
Still, none of the top brass has been spotted publicly since the strike, as Hamas and Qatar have tried to maintain an information vacuum since.
Hayya has been heading Hamas’s hostage negotiating team.
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