WASHINGTON (Dispatches) – The United States has warned that Washington will “isolate” Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, in a sign of worry to the recent reconciliations between Damascus and the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement after a decade of strained relations.
In the wake of the meeting that took place between Assad and a Hamas delegation in Damascus on Wednesday, State Department spokesman Ned Price expressed Washington’s frustration and concerns on Assad’s outreach to Hamas movement, saying the rapprochement “harms Palestine’s interests and reinforces for us its isolation.”
“We will continue rejecting any support to rehabilitate the Assad regime,” Price said, noting that such support is particularly rejected from groups like Hamas.
This is while the U.S. has been pursuing its interventionism in Syria, to further cement its foothold in the war-ravaged Arab country and plunder its natural resources. In April, SANA news agency reported that U.S. occupation forces are training a group of the Daesh terrorists in the countryside of Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah to carry out various acts of terror.
A high-ranking Palestinian delegation met the Syrian president in Damascus on Wednesday, in the first such visit in more than a decade as the two sides seek to revitalize their ties.
Deputy chief of the Hamas political bureau in the besieged Gaza Strip, Khalil al-Hayya, who headed the delegation, said the spirit of resistance was resurrected within the Arab world following their historic visit to Damascus.
Such rhetoric prompted the U.S. to react, in a sign of fear from a stronger “Axis of resistance” in the region.
“Our meeting with al-Assad marked a glorious day today, and through it, we will resume our presence in Syria and working with Damascus in support of our people and Syria’s stability,” he said.
The Hamas official also reiterated that the resistance movement told President Assad that Hamas “will support Syria, its sovereignty, and territorial integrity and the Palestinian factions are against any aggression targeting Syrian soil.”
“The relations with Syria will give strength to the Axis of Resistance and to all the believers in the resistance,” al-Hayya stressed, pointing out that “Hamas did not hear any opposition from any state that was informed of its decision to reconcile with Syria, including Turkey and Qatar.”