Hezbollah rejected the latest ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and the Lebanese government on Thursday and demanded a complete Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon as continued fighting there hampers moves to end the Iran war.
In a written statement read out on TV, Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem called the negotiations “absurd, humiliating, and insulting.”
He said the agreement’s demand that Hezbollah fighters leave southern Lebanon under fire would mean “surrender, defeat and achieving the enemy’s goals.”
“What we are concerned about is an end to the aggression, ceasefire and Israel’s withdrawal,” he said, underscoring that Hezbollah had not made any commitment to stop fighting.
“So long as our villages are not safe and are being bombed and destroyed and our people are killed," he said, northern Israel “will not be safe.”
