DOHA, Qatar (AP) — 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.
Associated PressDOHA, Qatar — 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.
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 Haniyeh aide. “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.
“We have the basis for a cease-fire. He should move on it and they should move on it now," U.S. President Joe Biden said late Thursday, speaking on the tarmac of an air base outside Washington.
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