Report: Nasrallah-Meshaal Contacts Will Help Rebuild Islamic Resistance against Israel
The Israeli campaign against the Gaza Strip will play a major role in “reorganizing” the power of the resistance in Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, and the region, reported As Safir newspaper on Tuesday.
This was reflected in the telephone call between Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal on Monday, added the daily.
A leading Hamas source told As Safir: “The telephone call is a very important step towards rebuilding the Arab and Islamic resistance in confronting the Zionist enemy.”
Nasrallah had stressed to Meshaal Hizbullah's support for the Palestinian intifada and the resistance of its people.
Moreover, leading sources said that the Gaza campaign should help eliminate all misconceptions linked to the previous phase and the tensions that had arisen between Hamas on the one hand and Hizbullah and Tehran on the other.
“The campaign will help reunify the resistance front on the basis that Palestine is the central cause that holds precedence over all others and on the basis that Israel poses the greatest threat to the Arab and Islamic world,” it added.
Nasrallah is scheduled to deliver a speech on Friday afternoon on the occasion of Quds Day during which he will likely focus mostly on the Israeli campaign against Gaza.
Hizbullah is currently engaged in battles in neighboring Syria to back President Bashar Assad's army as he battles insurgents who have been trying to overthrow him since 2011.
The party's involvement in Syria has prompted bomb attacks by extremist groups against areas in Lebanon sympathetic to the group, killing mostly civilians.
More than 500 people have been killed so far in Israeli violence on the Gaza Strip.
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza began on July 8, with Israel announcing on July 17 that it would undertake ground operations in the strip.
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