BEIRUT: Hezbollah and the Islamic Action Front urged in a joint statement Wednesday the need for Sunni-Shiite unity against Israel and the spread of Islamist extremism in Lebanon and the region.
“Hezbollah and the Islamic Action Front affirmed the need for Muslim unity and the importance of unifying ranks and speeches to face the threats facing Lebanon and the region, especially the ongoing Zionist danger and the threat of takfiri terrorism that has emerged,” said a statement following a meeting between representatives of the two groups.
The statement, released by Hezbollah’s media office, said the meeting took place at the office of Hezbollah official Sheikh Ibrahim Amin Sayyed. It did not say when the meeting was held.
The meeting was attended by an IAF delegation headed by Sheikh Zuheir al-Jaeed. The IAF is close to Hezbollah.
Talks focused on developments in Lebanon and the region, the statement said.
It added that the “terrorist takfiri threat is similar to the Zionist threat that aims to create rifts and hatred and discord among Muslims.”
The officials called for confronting this takfiri trend “religiously, politically and in the media and even militarily” to prevent them from achieving their goal of re-dividing and re-fragmenting the region so that they could establish sectarian and ethnic entities to fight each other.
The statement said the takfiri scheme will allow Israel and the United States to spread more easily and take control of oil and water resources.
The conferees underlined the “need for the resistance to defend the land, honor and dignity” and stressed the importance of activating the tripartite defense strategy: “the Army, the people and the resistance.”
They also slammed Israel for continuing to violate Lebanese sovereignty while praising Hezbollah’s latest attack on an Israeli patrol in the occupied southern border area of the Shebaa Farms.
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