Allies in Resistance

Hezbollah, Hamas Stress Unity Against Zionist Regime

Date: 06 September 2020 - 22:30

News ID: ۸۲۵۱۸

BEIRUT (Dispatches) –Secretary-General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has held talks with the head of Palestine’s Hamas Political Bureau chief and his deputy Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut.
They agreed on further strengthening of relations and coordination between in the face of growing threats from their common enemy, the Zionist regime, the Lebanese Arabic-language online newspaper Elnashra reported on Sunday.
The talks covered the "latest political and military developments in Palestine, Lebanon and the region,” Hezbollah said in a statement.
The Hezbollah statement reiterated "the strength of the resistance axis in the face of all pressures and threats.” It also underlined the strong relations between Hezbollah and Hamas.
They discussed the so-called deal of the century, the growing trend of normalization between some Arab regimes and the Zionist regime as well as the international Muslim community’s responsibility in the face of these threats.
Hamas and Hezbollah leaders emphasized the need for the resistance front’s steadiness and strength to counter the threats facing the Palestinians and the broader Muslim world.
In a statement, Hezbollah said the two groups’ ties "have been founded on the principles of faith, brotherliness, Jihad (struggle on the path of God), common destiny, and expansion of [standing] cooperation and coordination mechanisms between them,” it added.
The movements have spearheaded resistance efforts against the Zionist regime’s aggression in their respective nations.
Hamas defends the Gaza Strip against Israel. Tel Aviv has taken the Palestinian territory under incessant attacks, three all-out wars, and a crippling siege since 2007.
Hezbollah has also fought off two wars by the Zionist regime targeting Lebanon in the 2000s, each time forcing the occupying regime’s military into a retreat.
Haniyeh has traveled to the Lebanese capital for the first time in 27 years for an across-the-board meeting of all Palestinian factions. Lebanon is home of more than 174,000 Palestinian refugees.
The talks between the Palestinian factions come in the wake of a U.S.-brokered deal between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Zionist regime to normalize their relations.
All Palestinian factions have unanimously condemned the UAE-Zionist agreement, describing it as a stab in the back of the oppressed nation and a

betrayal of the Palestinian cause against the occupation.
During the trip, Haniyeh also met with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and caretaker prime minister Hassan Diab.
The plenary gathering of the Palestinian factions also featured emphasis on the same points raised during Haniyeh and Nasrallah’s meeting.
A final statement issued after the Palestinian event warned that the threats posed to the Palestinian nation by the Zionist regime, Washington, and the Arab regimes sought to undermine the main principles of the Palestinian cause.
The principles being targeted, the statement added, included the Palestinians’ right to an independent state "on all occupied Palestinian territories” as well as Gaza, and the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes.