Khaled Meshaal, a senior official in Hamas, has been speaking at an event in Doha, Al Jazeera reports.

Meshaal, who was speaking at an event to mourn members of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s family after they were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Wednesday, said the group would “break the enemy soon”.

Meshaal lives in exile and heads Hamas’s political office in the diaspora.

“This is not the final round,” he said, referring to the now six-month-old conflict. “It is an important round on the path of liberating Palestine and defeating the Zionist project.”