Qatar is holding funeral ceremonies for Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh after his killing in Iran, an attack blamed on Israel that has deepened fears of a regional escalation.
Haniyeh, the head of the Palestinian group's political bureaus had resided in Doha along with other Hamas leaders.
He will be buried at a cemetery in Lusail, north of the Qatari capital, following funeral prayers at the Imam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab mosque, the country's largest.
Hamas has said that "Arab and Islamic leaders" as well as representatives of other Palestinian factions and members of the public would attend the events.
Separately, Israel has admitted to killing Ismail Al-Ghoul, a Gaza-based journalist slain alongside his cameraman Rami Al-Rifi in an attack in the Al-Shati refugee camp on Wednesday.
The Israeli military said on social media platform X that the Al Jazeera journalist had been "eliminated", claiming he was part of Hamas's armed wing and "instructed other operatives on how to record operations".
But Al Jazeera, a pan-Arab broadcast network, denied "baseless allegations" made by Israeli forces in a bid to "justify [their] deliberate killing" of Al-Ghoul and Al-Rifi.
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