Hezbollah lawmaker says group can ‘thwart’ any goals of Lebanon-Israel talks

A Hezbollah lawmaker says that the terror group will be able to “thwart” the objectives of direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel.

Speaking at an event honoring killed Hezbollah operatives, Hassan Fadlallah says “these negotiations with all their results do not concern us, and we will not implement them.”

“We have a free people and a steadfast resistance capable of thwarting all the objectives of these negotiations, which increase the sharp division in the country between the factions of our people and within the state itself,” Fadlallah says.

Lebanon and Israel’s US ambassadors have held two meetings in Washington in recent weeks, the first of their kind in decades.

Hezbollah has strongly rejected the talks, with its leader Naim Qassem calling them a “sin.”

Cross-border violence has continued despite a ceasefire that began April 17, with Hezbollah continuing to fire drones and rockets and Israel striking the terror group’s targets in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley.

The ceasefire text grants Israel the right to act against “planned, imminent or ongoing attacks.”

Fadlallah says that “any new agreement that will be established in Lebanon must guarantee that our country will not be attacked in any way.”