The agreement abandons the US-Iran MoU, which made ending the war in Lebanon its first priority and guaranteed Lebanon’s territorial integrity before final negotiations, said Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem in a statement reported by Al-Manar.
He slammed the framework agreement as “humiliating, shameful, and a surrender of sovereignty” and declared it “null and void”.
Other key points:
🔊Direct Lebanese-Israeli negotiations in the US are a “gratuitous concession” to Israel and “a stab in the back of the resistance”
🔊Agreement “legitimizes” the continued presence of the Israeli forces in Lebanon for years and may pave the way for “annexation”
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It “deprives Lebanese people of returning to their land’
🔊Any agreement must be limited to south of the Litani River, and must not relate to any internal Lebanese matters on weapons or security
🔊Linking an Israeli withdrawal to Hezbollah’s disarmament across all of Lebanon “crosses every red line”
🔊Hezbollah will pursue “all necessary means” to force Israel to implement the US-Iran memorandum’s first clause by fully withdrawing from Lebanon
🔊Hezbollah will continue “as a resistance on the ground to expel the occupation”
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