Lebanon’s PM fires back at Hezbollah, blaming group for ‘dragging Lebanon into futile war’

Lebanon’s prime minister fires back at Hezbollah for saying talks with Israel bring “nothing but shame,” saying the Iran-backed terror group dragged the country into war.

Without mentioning Hezbollah by name, Nawaf Salam writes on X that “the greatest support for Israel was provided by the one who distinguished himself by dragging Lebanon into futile war adventures, giving it pretexts to commit aggressions against our country, trample its sovereignty, destroy its cities and villages, kill its sons, and displace them by the hundreds of thousands.”

He says that the ones who “tie Lebanon to external calculations and axes… have no right to hand out certificates in patriotism, let alone in sovereignty.”

Salam calls for “a state with one army that extends its authority over all its territories solely by its own forces.”