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 1,000,000 Lebanese have been pushed from their properties by a battle that has run in parallel with the broader Iran warfare. 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 warfare.
The framework agreed on Friday gives for a phased Israeli withdrawal from some elements 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 known 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 traces”.
The group would proceed its armed resistance, he added: “We didn’t depart the battlefield in essentially the most tough circumstances, and we is not going to depart it.”
