Manage Preferences<\/a><\/p>\nFacing the coffins, the emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, prayed alongside dozens of mourners, some wearing traditional white robes, others wearing military uniform.<\/p>\n
The interior ministry said the dead would be buried in the Mesaimeer Cemetery after the funeral at Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Wahhab Mosque.<\/p>\n
Authorities beefed up security, with checkpoints on access roads to the mosque.<\/p>\n
Hamas said its top officials survived the strikes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Hamas said five of its members were killed: top negotiator Khalil al-Hayya’s son Hamam; his office director Jihad Labad; and bodyguards Ahmad Mamlouk, Abdallah Abdelwahd and Mumen Hassoun.<\/p>\n
Qatari Lance Corporal Badr Saad Mohammed al-Humaidi al-Dosari was also killed.<\/p>\n
In an interview with CNN yesterday, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said he could not confirm Mr Hayya’s fate.<\/p>\n
The Hamas chief negotiator was not seen at the funeral, in the footage viewed by AFP.<\/p>\n
Sheikh Mohammed said the Israeli attack had killed any hope for Israeli hostages in Gaza, adding that Qatar was reevaluating “everything” surrounding its role as mediator in ceasefire talks.<\/p>\n
Doha has been a venue for several rounds of indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel.<\/p>\n
The emirate allowed Hamas to set up a political office in Doha in 2012 with the blessing of the United States, which has sought to maintain a communication channel with the group.<\/p>\n
Sheikh Mohammed said he hoped for a collective regional response to the attack and that an Arab-Islamic summit would be held in Doha to decide on a course of action.<\/p>\n
The first Israeli strikes in the Gulf sent shockwaves through a region long shielded from conflicts elsewhere in the Middle East and drew international condemnation.<\/p>\n
Former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was buried in Qatar after his assassination in Iran in July 2024 in an attack attributed to Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Arab Emirates condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “hostile remarks” against Qatar, adding that any attack on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-14889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}