APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Beirut, 30 June 2021. Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh meets with Ziad al-Nakhla, secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, in Beirut.
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The top leaders of the Islamic Jehad and Hamas held talks in Beirut on Wensday about last month’s 11-day war with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
Haniyeh, arrived in Lebanon on Sunday and met several top officials, including President Michel Aoun, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
The Egyptian-brokered truce ended 11 days of heavy Israeli bombing of Gaza and rocket fire from the impoverished coastal enclave into Israel. Israeli air strikes and artillery fire on Gaza killed 257 Palestinians, including 66 children, and wounded more than 1,900 people in 11 days of conflict from May 10, the health ministry in Gaza says.
After the end of the war in Gaza, Haniyeh visited Egypt for Palestinian reconciliation talks. He later visited Morocco and Mauritania before arriving in Lebanon.
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