Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad chiefs meet; discuss regional issues, closer cooperation

The Secretary General of the Hezbollah resistance movement and the Islamic Jihad chief met on Wednesday and discussed the latest developments in the region, including in the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, as well as future cooperation between the two groups.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Ziyad Nakhalah met in a southern suburb of Beirut, reviewing recent events in the occupied Palestinian territories and the recent Israeli military onslaught on Gaza, Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network reported.

Nasrallah and Nakhalah assessed the battle on the field, as well as its “political and media aspects,” the report said.

Future cooperation between the two resistance movements was discussed as well.

The duo also held talks on “the expected roles of the various parties in the Axis of Resistance in the next stage.”

On Monday, the Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements praised the path of resistance as the “strategic option” to confront Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the Tel Aviv regime’s acts of aggression, emphasizing that there is no turnaround in the stance.

The two movements, in a joint statement released following a high-level meeting of their leaders in Gaza City, said resistance is a strategic and unalterable approach for them, and underlined that coordination between the two groups is at its pinnacle.

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