BEIRUT (Dispatches) -- The leaders of the resistance movements Hezbollah and Hamas have met in Beirut to discuss “the readiness of the axis of resistance” against the occupying regime of Israel, a Hezbollah statement said Sunday.
Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, which administers the Gaza Strip, has been in the Lebanese capital since Wednesday.
The occupying regime of Israel blamed Hamas for firing 34 rockets the following day toward the occupied territory from southern Lebanon, the stronghold of Hezbollah.
The Zionist regime carried out strikes on both southern Lebanon and Gaza early Friday, after rockets targeting Israeli targets were also fired from the coastal enclave.
During Haniyeh’s meeting with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, the pair discussed “the readiness of the axis of resistance” and cooperation between its members in the face of recent developments, the Hezbollah statement said.
The “axis of resistance” refers to Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian and other resistance groups opposed to the occupying regime of Israel.
The two also discussed “the intensification of resistance in the West Bank and Gaza” and “events at Al-Aqsa Mosque” in Al-Quds, according to the statement, which did not specify when they met.
On Wednesday, Zionist forces stormed the prayer hall of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third-holiest site, in a pre-dawn raid.
Following the strikes on Lebanon and Gaza, the Zionist regime announced early Sunday it had struck targets in Syria after six rockets were fired from Syrian territory.
The Zionist military said two rockets landed in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The latest operations, which were not immediately claimed, came after three people were killed in two separate attacks targeting Zionists in recent days.
On Saturday, Zionist forces fatally shot another Palestinian
youth during an attack on unarmed civilians in the town of Azzun, east of the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilyah.
The Palestinian health ministry identified the young man as Ayed Azzam Saleem, 20, adding he died shortly after being critically injured by Zionist forces.
Witnesses said Israeli forces directly fired at young Palestinians who were demonstrating at the entrance to the town of Azzun in protest at the daily atrocities across the occupied territories.
Saleem, was first reported critically injured and rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead of his injuries.
According to the Palestinian Information Center, the new fatality increased the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces’ live fire in the occupied West Bank and the 1948-occupied Palestinian territories since the beginning of 2023 to 98.
The new development came amid heightened tensions across the occupied Palestinian territories after Israeli forces violently stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the holy occupied city of Al-Quds and attacked Palestinian worshipers there.