Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem rejected a US-brokered security agreement between Lebanon and Israel on Saturday (Jun 27) a day after it was signed, describing it as a give up to Israel.
Within the newest instance of ongoing hostilities regardless of repeated ceasefires and agreements, Israel launched a drone strike in Lebanon’s south.
Greater than one million Lebanese have been pushed from their houses by a battle that has run in parallel with the broader Iran struggle. Hezbollah and Iran say Washington pledged to finish hostilities in Lebanon as a part of its memorandum of understanding signed two weeks in the past to finish the broader struggle.
The framework agreed on Friday gives for a phased Israeli withdrawal from some components of southern Lebanon, alongside the deployment of the Lebanese military. However Israeli forces could be permitted to stay in an expanded safety zone in the meanwhile, pending additional implementation.
In an announcement, Qassem referred to as it “null and void”, and accused the Lebanese authorities of creating unilateral concessions and undermining Lebanon’s sovereignty.
He criticised provisions linking Israel’s withdrawal to Hezbollah’s disarmament, saying they successfully legitimised Israel’s navy presence and crossed “all crimson strains”.
The group would proceed its armed resistance, he added: “We didn’t go away the battlefield in probably the most tough circumstances, and we won’t go away it.”
