The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah met with top leaders of the Palestinian terrorist factions Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to a report by Hezbollah's al-Manar TV, saying they had assessed what their alliance must do to "achieve a real victory for the resistance" in Gaza.
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The meeting grouped Hezbollah's Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, with Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad chief Ziad al-Nakhala, Al-Manar reported.
Video: 'It's a massacre' - Israeli kibbutz highlights destruction of Hamas attack / Credit: Reuters
"The meeting ... assessed the positions taken internationally and what the Axis of Resistance must do", a headline on Al-Manar said, referring to an alliance of Iran, Palestinian terrorist groups, Syria, Lebanon's Hezbollah, and other factions.
Israeli airstrikes hit a number of military sites in southern Syria on Wednesday, killing eight soldiers and wounding seven others, according to Syrian state media.
The strikes targeted the Daraa countryside overnight and came from the direction of Syria's Israeli Golan Heights, the SANA state-run news agency said, citing military officials.
The Israeli military said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that its fighter jets struck "military infrastructure and mortar launchers" of the Syrian army "in response to rocket launches from Syria toward Israel yesterday." Since the war between Israel and Hamas started on Oct. 7, raising tensions in the region, Israel has reportedly carried out several reported strikes in Syria including two on the Damascus airport and three on Aleppo's airport that put them out of service.
Israel has targeted airports and sea ports in the government-held parts of Syria in an apparent attempt to prevent arms shipments from Iran to terrorist groups backed by Tehran, including Lebanon's Hezbollah.
Australia said it sent an additional two air force transport jets to the Middle East in case citizens of the country need to be evacuated should hostilities escalate. Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles said Wednesday that three aircraft were now in the region.
"All of this is a contingency and the purpose of it is to be supporting Australian populations that are in the Middle East if, in fact, this conflict gets worse," Marles told Nine Network television. Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair said Tuesday that Canada's government does not believe Hamas would respect a cease-fire in its conflict with Israel.
"I have no expectation that a terrorist organization would respect international law or any call for a cease-fire," Blair said before heading into a Cabinet meeting. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said afterward that Canada supports the idea of "humanitarian pauses," temporary halts to fighting, allowing for aid to get into Gaza safely and people to leave.
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