So far, the head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has not made any public statements since the start of the Gaza war. Now there was a meeting with Hamas. The Islamic Jihad leader was also there.
The head of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, met with senior representatives of the Islamist Hamas and the militant Palestinian organization Islamic Jihad (PIJ). This was announced by Hezbollah’s press office.
Nasrallah met with Hamas deputy chief Salih al-Aruri and with Siad Nachali, PIJ leader in the Palestinian territories, to discuss “the latest developments in the region.”
The men also discussed what the “axis of resistance (against Israel) must do in this sensitive phase in order to achieve a real victory for the resistance in Gaza and Palestine,” Hezbollah said. The aim was to stop the “treacherous and brutal aggression against our people,” it said.
Hezbollah also released a photo of the meeting, the location and time of which were not disclosed. On the wall next to the men hang portraits of Iran’s late revolutionary leader Ruhollah Khomeini and the current head of state, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
No public statement from Nasrallah
The Shiite Hezbollah (Party of God) was formed in 1982 with Iranian support in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Since then she has been fighting politically, but also violently, against Israel. Nasrallah has lived in seclusion for years and has not spoken publicly since the start of the Gaza war.
In the war between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hamas, there are also concerns that the pro-Iranian Hezbollah could enter deeper into the fighting. Hezbollah is considered far more dangerous to Israel than Hamas, which rules in the Gaza Strip.
Source: Stern
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