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The general secretary of the Lebanese group “Hezbollah”, Hassan Nasrallah, received the head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas”, Ismail Haniyeh, and his deputy, Saleh Al-Arouri.
Anadolu News Agency cited a statement by Hezbollah that the meeting reviewed “in detail the entirety of the political and military developments in Palestine, Lebanon and the region.”
During the meeting, they reviewed “the dangers facing the Palestinian question, especially (the US plan), the deal of the century and the official Arab normalization projects” with Israel.
The statement added: “The stability and resilience of the axis of resistance was emphasized in the face of all the pressures, threats and great hopes placed on it.”
Also emphasized was “the strength of the relationship between Hezbollah and Hamas, which is based on faith, brotherhood, jihad and one destiny, and the development of cooperation and coordination mechanisms between the two sides.”
The place or date of the meeting was not mentioned. Nasrallah rarely appears in public and does not know where he is.
Haniyeh has been visiting Lebanon, leading a Hamas delegation, since September 1. Last Thursday he participated in an expanded meeting of the general secretaries of the Palestinian factions to discuss annexation and normalization plans between the Arab countries and Israel.
The visit comes after the UAE and Israel announced the normalization of relations between them. The past few weeks have also seen tensions between Hezbollah and Israel near the southern border of Lebanon.
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to annex parts of the occupied West Bank as part of the “deal of the century,” announced by Washington earlier this year, and the Palestinians reject it entirely.
On August 13, the United Arab Emirates and Israel announced an agreement to normalize relations, after years of rapprochement, making the United Arab Emirates the first Gulf country to establish relations with Israel.
Netanyahu announced a week ago that direct secret talks were taking place with leaders of various Arab countries to normalize relations as well.
On Sunday, Haniyeh visited the Ain El-Helweh camp in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, where he was greeted by a large crowd, including those who had come from other camps in Lebanon.
Haniyeh was hoisted on the shoulders as soon as he entered the camp, with the chants and chants, amid tight security measures for the factions in the camp. The Hamas members wore black clothing and surrounded Haniyeh during his tour.
Haniyeh said in a speech to the crowd: “The range of the rockets was a few kilometers ago outside the borders of Gaza. Today the resistance in Gaza possesses (flattened) missiles, Tel Aviv and beyond Tel Aviv.”
At the beginning of last week, Israel and Hamas reached an agreement to end the escalation and stabilize the truce between the Gaza Strip, which is besieged by Israel, about a month after the exchange of fire.
At the camp, Haniyeh said, according to a statement issued by the Hamas movement, that “normalization does not represent the nation’s people and their conscience, nor their history and heritage,” highlighting their rejection of resettlement and the idea of a “homeland. alternative”.
There are more than 174,000 Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, distributed in 12 camps and 156 localities, according to the latest count by the Lebanese Central Bureau of Statistics for the year 2017.
The Ein El-Hilweh camp is the most densely populated camp in Lebanon, with more than 54,000 Palestinian refugees registered with the United Nations. Thousands of Palestinians who fled the conflict in Syria have joined them in recent years.
