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		</div><p>Mourners gathered in Doha on Friday to hold funeral prayers for slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as Iran and its regional allies vowed to retaliate against Israel.</p>
<p>With the bodies of Haniyeh and his bodyguard in coffins draped with Palestinian flags, men knelt and prayed while senior leaders of Hamas’ Qatar-based political office paid their respects to Mr Haniyeh’s family.</p>
<p>That included two men seen as his possible successors: Khalil Al-Hayya, a Hamas senior official and the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and former Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, a close aide to Mr Haniyeh.</p>
<figure id="attachment_183971" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-183971" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_5990.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-183971" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-183971" class="wp-caption-text">People pray during the absent funeral prayer for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Islamabad, Pakistan</figcaption></figure>
<p>Mr Al-Hayya told family members that Mr Haniyeh was “no better or dearer” than the children killed in Gaza.</p>
<p>Some 39,480 Palestinians have been killed throughout the war, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.</p>
<p>“We are sure that his blood will bring out victory, dignity and liberation,” he said.</p>
<p>The funeral came a day after Israel said it had confirmed that the head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in a July 13 airstrike in Gaza, and a few days after Israel said it had killed Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukur in a strike in Lebanon.</p>
<p>Hamas has yet to comment and had previously claimed Mr Deif survived last month’s targeted airstrike.</p>
<p>Israel has yet to claim or deny a role in the killing of Mr Haniyeh, but Hamas and its allies say it was responsible.</p>
<figure id="attachment_183973" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-183973" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_5992.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-183973" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-183973" class="wp-caption-text">Symbolic funerals for Ismail Haniyeh were held around the world, including in Lebanon</figcaption></figure>
<p>The group said he was killed in a missile strike on a Tehran guesthouse where he was staying while attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president on Wednesday.</p>
<p>From Morocco to Iran, demonstrators took to the streets in a show of support for Mr Haniyeh.</p>
<p>“Let Friday be a day of rage to denounce the assassination,” Hamas’ Izzat al-Risheq said in a statement.</p>
<p>A day earlier, supporters paraded through Tehran as Mr Haniyeh’s coffin was carried through the city in an ornate vehicle, while hundreds of black-clad mourners packed an auditorium in Beirut to pay respects to the slain Hezbollah commander.</p>
<p>“We’ve entered a new phase that is different from the previous period,” Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, told mourners, vowing a “well-studied retaliation” against Israel.</p>
<p>The killings of Mr Haniyeh and Mr Shukur were a victory for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israeli forces continue to operate in Gaza, nearly 10 months after Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel sparked war.</p>
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