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Hamas chief meets Saudi king for first top level meeting in years
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Hamas chief Khaled Meshal and other top officials from the Palestinian militant group met with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and senior Saudi leaders on Friday, a Hamas source said, in the first meeting between the two sides for years.

The meeting brought together top members of Hamas political wing with the Saudi king, crown prince and defense minister in a possible rapprochement between the conservative United States-allied kingdom and the traditionally Iran-allied party.

“The delegation discussed Palestinian unity and the political situation in the region. This meeting will hopefully develop relations between Hamas and Saudi Arabia,” the source told Reuters.

Manifestations en province Orientale

The Governorate of Al-Qatif, east of the Arabian Peninsula on Friday evening [6 September] witnessed a packed demonstration in solidarity with the protest movement which has been continuing since February 2011. The demonstration, which was sponsored by the Coalition of Freedom and Justice under the title of “Al-Muntasirun” [the victorious] in reference to the activists of the uprising whose names are on the wanted list by the Saudi Interior Ministry, marched through the main streets of the governorate and in which hundreds of men and women took part.

The demonstrators raised pictures of the targeted activists who are being chased by the security services which killed two of them and arrested others while they are still pursuing nine of them through armed raids, the latest of which was on Thursday morning when a martyr fell and about 20 were wounded during a raid on the town of Al-Awamiyah by the security forces.

The demonstrators repeated slogans against the Saudi regime and condemned the successive raids on the town of Al-Awamiyah and the attacks on the sanctities of homes and the terrorizing of women and children. The demonstrators also raised the pictures of Shaykh Nimr al-Nimr, the detained Shi’i figure, and called for releasing him, and the pictures of martyr Ahmad al-Mislab, who died by the bullets of the Saudi security authorities on Thursday.