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News from Al Mayadeen, January 30, 2024
The Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah have suspended their operations against the US occupation forces in Syria and Iraq so as to not go against the wishes of the Iraqi government, Secretary-General Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi said on Tuesday.
The Islamic Resistance “has taken the decision to support the people of Gaza without any intervention from foreign parties,” al-Hamidawi said.
He added that the Iraqi Resistance faction would continue defending Gaza through means other than armed struggle.
“Our brothers in the Axis [of Resistance], especially in Iran, do not know the specifics of our jihadist work, and they have repeatedly declared opposition to our escalation against the US forces in Iraq and Syria,” he added.
The Secretary-General also commanded the fighters of Kataib Hezbollah to “adopt passive defense (temporarily) if any hostile US action occurs against them.”
Just one week ago, the Iraqi Resistance announced that it had transited to the second phase of its operations in which it will work on enforcing blockading Mediterranean maritime routes to the Israeli-occupied ports in occupied Palestine, the Secretary General of the Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, Abu Alaa al-Walai announced in a post on X.
The leader of Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, a faction that operates under the umbrella of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, made the announcement following US strikes that targeted members of the Iraqi government’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
