Nasrallah meets Haniyeh amid high tensions with Israel
Hezbollah’s media department announced Sunday that the group’s chief, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, received a Hamas delegation headed by the Palestinian group’s leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Nasrallah and Haniyeh discussed “the most important developments in occupied Palestine, the course of events at al-Aqsa Mosque, and the escalating resistance in the West Bank and Gaza, in addition to general political developments in the region, the readiness of the Resistance Axis and the cooperation of its parties,” the statement said.
Haniyeh, who arrived in Lebanon last week shortly before rockets were launched at Israel from south Lebanon, had been scheduled to make a public appearance in Beirut on Friday. But it was canceled for security reasons following the cross-border flare-up.
No group has officially claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks, but Israel has accused Hamas of being behind them, retaliating with airstrikes on what it called Hamas sites in Gaza and south Lebanon.
Source: Associated Press, Naharnet
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