Iran Press/ Middle East: According to Palestinian media, a delegation that included Hamas politburo chairman Ismail Haniyeh, the group's foreign affairs chief Khaled Mashal, and officials Mousa Abu Marzook and Khalil al-Hayya, landed in the Saudi city of Jeddah late Monday.
According to reports, the team will conduct the Umrah in the closing days of Ramadan, the holy Muslim fasting month.
Following the resistance group's victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections and hostilities with the Fatah political party in Gaza, relations between Riyadh and Hamas worsened in 2007.
Saudi Arabia detained scores of Hamas members in 2019 on the grounds that they posed a danger to the kingdom's leadership.
In recent months, Hamas officials have expressed a desire to repair relations with Saudi Arabia. As a result, the monarchy has freed a large number of Hamas captives, including senior member Mohammad Al-Khudari.
In a statement back in February following the release of Hamas detainees, the movement stated, “We affirm our keenness on positive relations with our brothers in Saudi Arabia and all brotherly countries in the service of the Palestinian cause and our Arab and Islamic nation."
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