Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah has ordered Paleostinian Sunni group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to have its operatives leave Leb effective immediately.
A senior Hezbollah security official informed Ali Baraka, the Hamas representative in Leb, of the demand, the Middle East Online news agency reported on Thursday.
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The move came because of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, support for the Syrian rebels fighting to oust
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, according to the report. Both Hezbollah and Syria are allies of Iran, which provides them with financial and military support.
Baraka denied the report to Lebanese paper Aliwaa, saying Hezbollah officials in Leb were surprised by the Middle East Online story.
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...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
representative in Leb, also stressed to the paper that Hamas remained in Leb and that no changes had been made.
Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told the The Jerusalem Post from Washington, "Whether or not Hamas is being driven out of Leb is not as important as the fact that it has been minimized in the Iranian 'Axis of Resistance.'" Hamas abandoned its headquarters in Damascus last year, in a sign of tension with Iran, Hezbollah and Syria, said Schanzer. Hamas is getting far less aid from Iran now, and more from Sunni sponsors such as Qatar and Turkey, he said.
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Paleostinians in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp, southeast of Sidon, burned aid that was delivered by Hezbollah, apparently to show their displeasure with the movement's support for the Assad regime.
The spillover of the Syrian war continued on Thursday as rockets hit northern Lebanon while President Michel Suleiman was touring an army checkpoint in Arsal in northeast Lebanon. The attack wounded one person.