{"id":123919,"date":"2023-10-19T12:35:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T16:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123919"},"modified":"2023-10-19T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T22:40:19","slug":"politco-europe-hamas-says-its-closely-coordinating-wars-next-moves-with-hezbollah-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123919","title":{"rendered":"(Politco Europe) Hamas says it\u2019s closely coordinating war\u2019s next moves with Hezbollah in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran-backed militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah are closely coordinating their next steps in fighting against Israel, a senior Hamas representative in Lebanon told POLITICO on Tuesday, just hours after Tehran warned of \u201cpreemptive action\u201d against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Abdul-Hadi, the head of Hamas\u2019 political bureau in Beirut, insisted Gaza-based Hamas had not given its ally Hezbollah any advance notice of its attacks against Israel on October 7, which killed more than 1,400 people. Despite this, however, he described a continual cooperation between the two groups, stressing Hezbollah was now \u201cgeared for a major war\u201d against Israel in the north, while Hamas would burst Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s \u201cdream\u201d of driving it out of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks will heighten fears the conflict in the Middle East could be about to spill onto two fronts and engulf Lebanon, particularly if Israel launches a ground invasion of Gaza, where its bombardments have already killed more than 2,700 people, and Tehran commits its fellow-Shiite Hezbollah proxies into all-out war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/hamas-say-closely-coordinate-war-next-move-hezbollah-lebanon\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hamas says it&#39;s closely coordinating the war&#39;s next moves with Hezbollah in Lebanon.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qM5SIPK0zG\">https:\/\/t.co\/qM5SIPK0zG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POLITICOEurope\/status\/1714521720185319892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran-backed militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah are closely coordinating their next steps in fighting against Israel, a senior Hamas representative in Lebanon told POLITICO on Tuesday, just hours after Tehran warned of \u201cpreemptive action\u201d against Israel. Ahmed Abdul-Hadi, the head<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=123919\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,564,565,563,203,106,151,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-israel","category-lebanon","category-middle-east","category-military-armed-forces","category-politics-in-general","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123921,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123919\/revisions\/123921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}