Katz welcomes UK Hezbollah ban, vows to lobby for similar policy change at UN

Acting Foreign Minister Israel Katz praises the British government for moving to label Lebanon’s Hezbollah a terrorist organization, including its political wing.

Katz says there is no difference between Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and the “terrorists carrying out his objectives or those carrying out Iran’s mission against Israel and other Arab states in the region.”

Earlier, British Home Secretary Sajid Javid said the government was “no longer able to distinguish” between the organization’s military and political wing, and accused the organization of destabilizing the fragile situation in the Middle East.

Katz says he will urge UN agencies to adopt a similar policy toward the Iran-backed paramilitary group in his meeting with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York next week.