Deputy Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri met with Hizballah’s chief Hassan Nasrallah Tuesday in Beirut, according to Hizballah’s Al Manar TV and reported by Ynet News.

The meeting comes after Israel destroyed an offensive tunnel originating in Gaza and stretching into Israeli territory, killing several senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members. Al-Arouri and Nasrallah discussed “the Zionist aggression against Gaza and its ramifications,” even though the tunnel was constructed to attack and abduct Israelis in a future confrontation.

The tunnel’s construction started after the 2014 war with Hamas ended, according to Israeli military officials speaking to the Jerusalem Post.

Such a high profile meeting signals a major rapprochement between the terrorist organizations, after ties were formally severed in 2011 when the groups took opposite positions in Syria’s civil war.

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