Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh meets Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut for talks on Israel’s 11-day bombardment of Gaza.
The highest leaders of the teams Hezbollah and Hamas held talks within the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday about final month’s 11-day Israeli bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of Hamas, the Palestinian group that governs Gaza, arrived in Lebanon on Sunday and met a number of prime officers, together with President Michel Aoun and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.
On Tuesday, Haniyeh and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah mentioned how they will construct on the expertise of the newest spherical of violence. The Israeli bombardment killed a minimum of 256 Palestinians, together with 66 youngsters. 13 folks have been killed in Israel, together with two youngsters.
The 2 sides pressured “the depth of the prevailing relationship between Hezbollah and Hamas, and its key position … on this decisive battle”, Turkish state information company Anadolu reported, citing a Hezbollah assertion.
In a speech after the assembly, Haniyeh pressured the significance of the proper of return for Palestinian refugees and their descendants and the rejection of resettlement or an “different homeland”. He stated the Palestinians who reside in Lebanon are “company” till they will return to their homeland, and that they contribute to Lebanon’s “stability and safety”.
Haniyeh famous that “Jerusalem stays the main target of the battle with the occupation and the resistance is the strategic selection for liberation.”
He added: “The unity of the Palestinian folks is the premise for attaining this liberation.”
The assembly was the primary between the 2 leaders since final September.
In the course of the escalation of violence final month, Hamas and different armed teams fired greater than 4,000 rockets into Israel, whereas Israeli air assaults and shelling induced widespread destruction within the impoverished enclave, which has been below a joint Israeli-Egyptian air, land and sea blockade since 2007.
After the preventing in Gaza, Haniyeh took half in reconciliation talks with rival Palestinian factions in Egypt and later visited Morocco and Mauritania earlier than arriving in Lebanon.