Lebanon Hezbollah Leader Meets with Hamas and Islamic Jihad Senior Officials

Senior leader of Lebanon's armed faction Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah (right), meeting with senior officials of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Screenshot from Al Manar social media X account.

The top leader of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah met with senior officials from the Palestinian armed factions Hamas and the Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

According to Hezbollah's broadcaster Al-Manar on the 25th (local time), Hassan Nasrallah, the top leader of Hezbollah, held talks the previous day in Lebanon with Saleh Arouri, deputy head of Hamas' political bureau, and PIJ leader Ziad Nakhalah.

Al-Manar reported, "On this day, Nasrallah focused on discussing the positions of the international community and regional countries regarding the Israel-Hamas war, and what the 'resistance axis' must do to achieve a decisive victory at this sensitive moment."

In a statement later released through Lebanon's state media operated by Hezbollah, they declared, "Our goal is to secure a genuine victory for the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian resistance forces, and to stop Israel's deceptive and brutal aggression against the oppressed residents of Gaza and the West Bank."

Supported by Iran, the PIJ is waging war against Israel alongside Hamas, and Hezbollah, also backed by Iran, is attacking Israel's northern border areas.

Israel has expressed its intention to avoid war with Lebanon but has warned that if Hezbollah drags Lebanon into the conflict, it will pay a severe price.

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