The body of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, assassinated in Tehran in an attack blamed on Israel, arrived Friday, August 2, at a large mosque in Doha, Qatar. Ismail Haniyeh is then to be buried in a cemetery in Lusail, in the north of Doha, after a prayer ceremony. On this occasion, Hamas called for a “day of anger” and asked that “Angry marches start from every mosque”. Follow our live.
Ismail Haniyeh was killed Wednesday by a “air projectile”according to local media, in one of the residences reserved for veterans in northern Tehran, after attending the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian. Iran, Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah have accused Israel of the assassination. But according to the Israeli military, the only strike carried out that night in the Middle East was the one that killed Fouad Shokr, Hezbollah’s military leader, in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Fears of an extension of the war. The attacks in Tehran and Beirut have revived fears of a war spreading across the Middle East, between Israel on the one hand, and Iran and the groups it supports in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen on the other. US President Joe Biden has said in particular that “very worried” tensions in the Middle East and said the assassination of the Hamas leader had not “not arranged” the situation.
Investigation into the attack on a humanitarian convoy in April. The attack that killed seven aid workers in the Gaza Strip on April 1 was the result of “serious failures” of the Israeli army, according to the Australian government’s investigation report released Friday. Among the failings identified is the“misidentification” The target, a convoy from the American NGO World Central Kitchen, was mistaken for vehicles from the Islamist movement Hamas.