Isreal’s enemies and leaders of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas movement have met to discuss diplomatic normalisation between the Jewish state and Arab countries.

According to report, the leaders stressed the “stability” of the “axis of resistance” against Israel, the Hezbollah-run without saying where or when the meeting took place.

Head of the Iran-backed Shiite Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, was pictured meeting Ismail Haniyeh, who heads the political bureau of Hamas, the Islamist movement that control the Gaza Strip and they discussed “political and military developments in Palestine, Lebanon and the region” and “the dangers to the Palestinian cause” including “Arab plans for normalisation” with Israel.

Note that the meeting comes after an August 13 announcement that the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to normalise ties.

While the US-backed diplomatic drive is focused on boosting a regional alliance against Iran, Palestinians have criticized it to be a “stab in the back” as they remain under occupation and don’t have their own state.

The Prime Minister of Isreali, Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country is in talks with other Arab and Muslim leaders now about normalising relations, following the deals with UAE and, decades ago, Egypt and Jordan.

Haniyeh has been in Lebanon on a first since Wednesday for direct and video-conference talks with other Palestinian groups that oppose Israel’s diplomatic initiative.