Can Amal and Hezbollah mend rift after Fneish's meeting with Berri?

Former minister Mohammad Fneish has in recent days visited Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh, carrying a verbal message from Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem.

According to An-Nahar newspaper, the message focused on the following points:

- The motives that compelled Hezbollah to adopt its latest course of action.

- Providing an overview of the military situation according to the party leadership's assessment and the available information.

- Iran's situation as it faces a fierce onslaught.

- The future of the relationship between the two sides in light of recent developments.

Consequently, information emerged from sources within the party indicating that Qassem had informed Berri in his message that the mandate given to him by slain Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to manage the political situation remained unchanged and in effect from the party's perspective, An-Nahar said.

The report said that Hezbollah's primary concern is to "mend the rift between itself, Berri, and the Amal Movement by any means necessary, without entirely dismissing the notion that certain shifts are imposing themselves on this relationship."

Hezbollah's leadership believes that Fneish's mission, to this extent, has been successful, and that "Speaker Berri's wisdom" has prevailed, the report said.

Based on this equation, some say that what happened after the Ain el-Tineh meeting, which lasted for more than two hours, was essentially an understanding to "cut through the sensitive phase, after which the transformations and changes call for weaving the threads of another understanding on different foundations because the "old understanding" has automatically lost many of its solid foundations, the report added.