KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim joined some 3,000 congregants in performing the absentee funeral prayer for Hamas' Political Bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh at Masjid Negara today.
The prayer was performed right after the Friday prayers and led by Grand Imam Ehsan Mohd Hosni.
Also in attendance were Defence Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin, Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Datuk Mohd Na'im Mokhtar, and Chief of Defence Forces General Tan Sri Mohammad Ab Rahman.
Earlier, Ehsan also delivered a special Friday sermon, “Perjuangan Demi Nusa Tercinta” in conjunction with the Warriors’ Day 2024 celebration.
On Wednesday, Na’im reportedly called on all mosques under the supervision of the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia and the Federal Territory Islamic Religious Department to organise absentee funeral prayers for Haniyeh.
Ismail, who was also the former prime minister of Palestine, was killed in an airstrike that targeted his residence in Tehran, Iran, in the early hours of Wednesday (July 31). He was in the country to attend the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
— Bernama
