Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar has thanked the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, for his group’s support in the conflict with Israel, reports Al Jazeera.
“Your blessed actions have expressed your solidarity on the fronts of the ‘axis of resistance’, supporting and engaging in the battle,” Sinwar told Nasrallah, according to Hezbollah’s al-Manar broadcaster.
In the first reported comments since Sinwar became Hamas’s leader in August, he is reported to have sent a letter to Nasrallah, as well one to as Algerian President Abdulmadjid Tebboune to congratulate them on his re-election.
Hezbollah has been engaging in mostly low-level exchanges of fire with the Israeli army since the outbreak of the Gaza war. Hezbollah has said that its attacks on Israel will stop once a ceasefire has been established in the Strip, while Israel has stepped up threats of an invasion of Lebanon and expanded its attacks from the south of the country to as far as its capital, Beirut.
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