Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem on Saturday rejected the US-brokered security agreement signed a day earlier between Lebanon and Israel, calling it a "surrender to Israel" and declaring the framework "null and void". The group said the deal undermines Lebanon's sovereignty by linking an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon to Hezbollah's disarmament, while Israel defended the agreement as a mechanism to maintain security along the border.

As Lebanon-Israel reach an agreement, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem accepts 'no normalisation' and 'no gains for Israel'

Naim Qassem said the Washington-backed Israel-Lebanon agreement is "null" and warned that tying Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon to Hezbollah's disarmament crosses "red…