Hezbollah leader holds talks with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad chiefs

Their goal was to achieve “a real victory for the resistance in Gaza and Palestine” and halt Israel’s “treacherous and brutal aggression against our oppressed and steadfast people in Gaza and the West Bank”

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group held talks in Beirut on Wednesday with senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad figures (Hezbollah Media Relations Office/AP)

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group held talks on Wednesday with senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad figures in a key meeting of three top anti-Israel militant groups amid the war raging in Gaza.

A brief statement following the meeting said Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, agreed with Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri and Islamic Jihad’s leader, Ziad al-Nakhleh, on the next steps that the three – along with other Iran-backed militants – should take at this “sensitive stage”.