Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad leaders discuss crisis in Ain al Hilweh countryside

2023-08-13 13:41:30

MADRID, 13 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Secretary General of the Lebanese Shiite party-militia Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, and the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militia, Ziad Najale, recently held a meeting to discuss the ongoing crisis in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, the most Lebanon’s largest, rocked two weeks ago by clashes between Palestinian groups that have threatened to spread throughout the country.

The meeting, which took place on an unspecified date, has finally been confirmed by Hezbollah in a statement collected by the newspaper ‘L’Orient le Jour’ this Sunday and is the latest round of contacts held by the leader of the Lebanese formation. regarding the situation in the camp.

Without going any further, on Saturday morning Nasrallah received a delegation from the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Parliament (Hezbollah’s great ally), headed by its president, Vahid Jalalzadé.

Regarding the meeting with the leader of Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah has limited itself to communicating that both have also discussed “the latest events in Palestine and the region”, as well as “the opportunities available to the axis of the Resistance”, as it is called. armed opposition against Israel.

The clashes in Ain al Hilweh began at the end of July and for about two weeks they became the focus of attention in the country. The camp, which is located on the outskirts of the southern city of Sidon, is virtually a lawless city and is notorious for clashes between Palestinian factions operating there, where the Lebanese Army refrains from intervening, preferring to leave security issues in the hands of the Palestinian militias.

The fighting left at least 13 dead and 60 injured, and provoked the activities of the UN agency for the Palestinians, UNRWA, which denounced collateral damage against its schools in the camp, which hosts 80,000 of the 250,000 registered Palestinian refugees. in Lebanon (substantially less than the estimated total), occasional victims of the wrath of Lebanese groups who see refugees as a burden to the state amid the country’s enormous economic crisis.