News from Al-Madinah: The first high-level visit by a Hamas leadership team to Damascus since the movement departed the city more than ten years ago took place on Wednesday. The team, led by Khalil al-Hayya, the movement’s head of the Arab and Islamic Relations Office, arrives in Damascus on Wednesday.
The delegation’s trip to Damascus is a part of a larger group of delegations from various factions, Qasim continued.
Bashar al-Assad, the head of the Syrian government, will meet with members of the Palestinian groups on Wednesday in a general conference in which only Khalil al-Hayya represents Hamas.
She emphasised that only the movement’s leader, Osama Hamdan, and the head of the Arab and Islamic Relations Office, Khalil al-Hayya, are present in the delegation.
The delegation of the movement will meet with Major General Ali Al-Mamlouk, head of the Syrian regime’s National Security Office, and Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad, she said, noting that Assad declined to arrange a personal meeting with them.
In an interview with Anatolia, Qasim stated that there have been significant developments in this framework and that Hamas “is interested in expanding and developing its ties with Syria (in reference to the regime).
” He pointed out that his movement “has advanced relations with Damascus, but it retreated in light of the events that stormed the region in 2012. ”
Arab 21.
First delegation to “Hamas” in Damascus in more than a decade
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