Hezbollah Denies Meeting with Egyptian Intelligence Chief
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Statement by Hezbollah’s official follows an alleged report of a meeting between Hezbollah representative and Chief of Egypt's General Intelligence Service.
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Chief of Egypt's General Intelligence Service Abbas Kamel
A senior Hezbollah official denied the information published by the Paris-based website Intelligence Online regarding an Egyptian security meeting with Hezbollah representatives.
"The news is completely untrue; the head of Egyptian intelligence did not visit the southern suburbs of Beirut," adding that Major General Abbas Kamel (Chief of Egypt's General Intelligence Service) did not meet with any Hezbollah leader.
Earlier, Intelligence Online published a report stating that “Chief of Egypt's General Intelligence Service Abbas Kamel visited the southern suburb of Beirut and met a high-ranking delegation from Hezbollah on July 10 and August 12."
The report claimed that the alleged meeting aims to help ease the situation in the Gaza Strip on the basis “of full coordination between the resistance in Lebanon and resistance in Gaza".
The meeting allegedly took place after the Egyptian ambassador to Lebanon paved the way for the visit following his meetings with the Head of Hezbollah's Liaison and Coordination Unit Wafiq Safa.
Furthermore, the report also added that “the architects of this new strategy taken by Egypt - drawn up not only by Kamal but also by Moataz Zahran, ambassador to the US, and Faiza Abou al-Naga, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi 's foreign affairs adviser - are hoping these talks with Hezbollah will help keep any confrontational movements within the Palestinian territories at bay.”
Besides, Egypt has told Palestinians that it will close the Rafah border crossing from Monday.
Simultaneously, Israeli media reported that the incident, which took place last Saturday at Gaza’s wall barrier, has embarrassed the Egyptian mediator after he pledged calm to “Israel".
