Hamas has said it hopes Hizbullah will open a new front from southern Lebanon against Israel, which is currently embroiled in a deadly confrontation with the Palestinian movement in the besieged Gaza Strip.

“We hope the Lebanese front will be opened so that we can fight this entity (Israel) together,” said Moussa Abu Marzouq, deputy head of Hamas' political bureau.

“The resistance in Lebanon has the capability to do a lot of things,” Abu Marzouq told the Russian RIA Novosti news agency.

The Gaza Strip has been reeling under fierce Israeli bombardment since 22 days, which has left thousands of people dead or wounded, in an offensive that has not spared children, women, hospitals and even U.N. schools hosting displaced residents.

On Friday, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said his group will continue to stand by the Palestinian people and “all Palestinian resistance factions in Palestine.”

“We in Hizbullah have not withheld any form of the forms of support and assistance that we can offer,” Nasrallah said in a speech marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day.

“We are following up on all the military and political developments of the battle and we tell our brothers in Gaza that we stand by them and will do everything that we perceive as duty ” to help them, Nasrallah added.

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