Beirut - Saba:
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) renewed their condemnation on Friday of the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.
The two movements affirmed "the right of the Palestinian people to resist occupation, defend themselves, their land, and their holy sites, and confront settlement, displacement, and Judaization projects."
Hamas stated that Ali Baraka, head of its National Relations Department abroad, met with a delegation from the PFLP-General Command, led by Deputy Secretary-General Abu Imad Ramiz, and including Abu Kifah Ghazi, a member of the Political Bureau and the Front’s official in Lebanon.
In a statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), Hamas said the two sides discussed the latest developments in the Palestinian cause, foremost among them the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. They described it as a "crime of genocide and starvation" perpetrated for over 600 days by the Israeli enemy government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu (who is wanted by the International Criminal Court), resulting in the martyrdom and injury of more than 170,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
The two sides praised the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in Gaza, who are facing what they called "the most horrific genocide in modern history," amid international failure to stop it.
The statement called for unifying Palestinian positions and efforts to confront Zionist and American schemes aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause in favor of the enemy. It urged the international community to condemn the Israeli aggression, work seriously to stop the war on Gaza, and take practical decisions and measures to ensure an end to this aggression.
They also called for coordinated Arab and Islamic efforts to halt these attacks, stressing that the issue of Palestinian refugees is central to the Palestinian cause—primarily a political issue—and that a just solution lies in their return to their homeland, with the necessity of providing dignified living conditions and supporting their resilience until this goal is achieved.
The statement emphasized that addressing the presence of Palestinians in Lebanon must be comprehensive, not merely security-based, considering dialogue between the Lebanese government and the Palestinian Joint Action Committee as the correct approach to safeguarding the interests of both the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples.
Representing Hamas at the meeting were Ayman Shana’a, the National Relations official in Lebanon, and Ziad Hassan, a member of Hamas’s National Relations Department.
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