the Hezbollah press office on September 6, 2020 shows Hassan
Nasrallah (R), the head of Lebanon’s militant Shiite movement
Hezbollah, meeting with Hamas’ political bureau chief Ismail Haniya
(L) at an undisclosed location. (Photo by – / various sources /
AFP)
Leaders of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Palestinian
Hamas movement, both enemies of Israel, have met to discuss
diplomatic normalisation between the Jewish state and Arab
countries, a report said Sunday.
They stressed the “stability” of the “axis of resistance”
against Israel, the Hezbollah-run Al-Manar TV channel reported,
without saying where or when the meeting took place.
Hassan Nasrallah, head of the Iran-backed Shiite Hezbollah
movement, was pictured meeting Ismail Haniyeh, who heads the
political bureau of Hamas, the Islamist movement that control the
Gaza Strip.
They discussed “political and military developments in
Palestine, Lebanon and the region” and “the dangers to the
Palestinian cause” including “Arab plans for normalisation” with
Israel, Al-Manar said.
The meeting comes after an August 13 announcement that the
Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to normalise
ties.
While the US-backed diplomatic drive aims to boost a regional
alliance against Iran, Palestinians have condemned it as a “stab in
the back” as they remain under occupation and don’t have their own
state.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country
is in talks with other Arab and Muslim leaders now about
normalising relations, following the deals with UAE and, decades
ago, Egypt and Jordan.
Haniyeh has been in Lebanon since Wednesday, on his first visit
to the country in nearly 30 years, for direct and video-conference
talks with other Palestinian groups that oppose Israel’s diplomatic
initiative.
Israel’s military has in recent weeks targeted Hamas in the Gaza
Strip and what it says have been Hezbollah gunmen along its
northern border with Lebanon.
It also regularly launches air strikes in war-torn Syria against
what it says are Hezbollah and other pro-Iranian militants fighting
on the side of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Nasrallah has been living in a secret location for years and
makes very few public appearances. He said in 2014 that he often
changes his place of residence.
AFP
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