2024-08-02 09:58:07
A symbolic ceremony for Ismail Haniya will take place today in Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, during noon prayer, almost at the same time as his funeral in Doha.
The president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will attend the ceremony, and the head of the government’s Directorate of Religious Affairs, Ali Erbas, will lead the prayer.
At the same time, with the decision of President Erdogan, national mourning was declared today regarding the assassination of Ismail Haniya in Tehran.
Haniya was killed yesterday Wednesday, in an “airstrike”, according to Hamas and Iranian media, at a building for war veterans in the north of Tehran, a few hours after attending the swearing-in ceremony of the new president of Iran, Massoud Pezheskian.
Iran, Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah blamed Israel for the killing. The Israeli army said for its part that the “lone” extraterrestrial strike it carried out last night was the one that killed Fouad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah official, in a southern suburb of Beirut.
A New York Times report, citing five Middle Eastern officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Ismail Haniya was killed when a bomb was hidden for nearly two months in the residence where he lived, although in theory the a heavily guarded building. by the Revolutionary Guards, as it is part of their huge complex in an affluent area in the north of the Iranian capital.
Source: protothema.gr
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