The leader of the Lebanese militant movement Hezbollah by Naim Kasim said on Wednesday that those who ask the disarmament of the movement “serve the interests of Israel”. At the same time, he accused the special American ambassador Tom Barrack of “intimidation” of Lebanon. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
In television speech on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of the military chief of Hezbollah Fuád Šukra the leader of the movement said that “Anyone who calls on weapons today, whether internally or externally, on the Arab or international scene, serves the Israeli project”. He also accused Barrack of using “intimidation and threats” to “help Israel”.
Šukr was the first high commander of Hezbollah, whose Israel destroyed in cross -border collisions after the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip in October 2023. Finally, the clashes were transformed into a full -fledged conflict, which in November 2024 terminated the ceasefire agreement.
According to the agreement, Hezbollah was supposed to withdraw his fighters and heavy weapons to the area north of the lithium river, thereby the Lebanese army and the UN peace forces remained the only armed forces on the territory near the Israeli border. Kasim stressed that he considers an agreement on the ceasefire to be valid “exclusively south of the Lithium River”. “However, if some associate weapons with this agreement, I say that weapons are an internal matter of Lebanon that has nothing to do … with an Israeli enemy,” stressed. Meanwhile, Washington is putting pressure on Beirut to disarming the movement. Barrack has already made several visits to negotiate with Lebanese officials.
On the basis of the agreement, Israel was supposed to withdraw all its units from Lebanon. He left some of them in five places he considered strategic. In addition, he carried out several raids at Hezbollah’s targets and undertaken to continue them until the movement is disarmed.
“Immediate danger is Israeli aggression … This aggression must end,” said the leader. “All political discussions in the country must be aimed at stopping aggression, not to hand over the weapons of Israel,” stressed.
The requirement of Lebanon, to withdraw Israel withdraw from its territory, was rejected by the US, according to a Lebanese source, a source of which. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam summoned the government meeting next week to discuss “the extension of state sovereignty over all parts of the territory, solely by his own,” writes AFP.
