BEIRUT (Dispatches) -- Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met in Beirut on Tuesday, as the Gaza-based resistance leader held a series of high-level meetings around the Arab world.
The two discussed the recent 11-day war by the occupying regime of Israel on Gaza, and how they could build on the experience of the latest round of resistance.
“Nasrallah and Haniyeh affirmed the depth of the relationship between Hezbollah and Hamas, and its primary position in the axis of resistance,” according to Lebanese TV station Al-Mayadeen.
The political head of the Gaza resistance movement visited Morocco and Mauritania before heading to Lebanon. Haniyeh last met with Nasrallah during his previous visit to Lebanon last September.
On Sunday, Haniyeh met with Lebanese President Michel Aoun.
The war on the Gaza Strip, which erupted on May 10 after Hamas fired retaliatory rockets at Zionist targets for attacking Palestinians in the occupied Jerusalem Al-Quds, ended 11 days later with a unilateral ceasefire declared Israel under the pressure of unprecedented rocket barrages fired from the besieged enclave.
Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, said last month Hamas coordinated with Hezbollah as well as Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps throughout the war.
Sinwar also said there was “full coordination between the resistance in Lebanon and resistance in Gaza”.
Upwards of 4,000 rockets were fired towards the Israeli-occupied territories during the operation, killing 11 Israelis and causing millions of dollars in damage to the occupying regime’s various structures and facilities.
The rockets flew throughout the entire expanse of the territories, reaching as far as Tel Aviv, the holy

occupied city of Al-Quds, and even northern-lying cities such as Haifa and Nazareth, forcing the regime to desperately demand a ceasefire.
The Palestinian factions had so far fended off several wholesale Israeli wars, but the recent victory marked the most decisive one to ever be scored by them given its grand scale and manner of achievement.
Haniyeh and Nasrallah discussed ways of leveraging the victory through “utilizing all capabilities in a bid to reach the final and decisive victory,” Hezbollah’s Media Relations Office said in the statement.
The two sides also laid emphasis on the strength of their brotherly relations, which they said have an important role in the consistency of the regional resistance axis.
According to a Hamas official, the two underlined that resistance was the “strategic option” to be used towards Palestine’s liberation and also underscored the Palestinian refugees’ right to return to their homeland.
Lebanon is also technically at war with the Zionist regime given the regime’s 1967-present occupation of the country’s Shebaa Farms. The regime also launched two massive wars against the country in the 2000s, both of which were successfully confronted by Hezbollah.
Haniyeh also met with Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab, saying Hamas would continue efforts to finalize reconciliation among various Palestinian factions.