Former VP Jusuf Kalla attends Hamas leader’s funeral, calls for end to Gaza war
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Former vice president Jusuf Kalla attends the funeral of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar on Aug. 3, 2024. (The Jakarta Post/Handout)F
ormer vice president Jusuf Kalla paid his last respects to Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh at his funeral in Doha, Qatar, on Friday and called for an end to the Israel-Hamas conflict during his visit.
Haniyeh was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli strike, according to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Hamas. Israel has yet to comment on the claim.
In a video shared by Kalla’s side, the former vice president joined the funeral prayer procession for Haniyeh at Qatar’s largest mosque, Imam Abdul Wahhab, in Doha and attended his burial at Luseil, north of Doha, alongside Haniyeh’s family, Hamas officials and political figures from Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia.
“This [gathering of many people] shows that we all support the Palestinian struggle as well as the effort to resolve the conflict [between Palestine and Israel] fairly,” Kalla said in a separate video statement.
Kalla, who served twice as vice president of Indonesia, under different presidents, was accompanied at the funeral by Din Syamsuddin, a former chairman of one of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organizations, Muhammadiyah; former law and human rights minister Hamid Awaluddin; and Indonesian Ambassador to Qatar Ridwan Hassan.
Haniyeh had been based in Doha before his death.
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