AhlulBayt News Agency: A Hezbollah lawmaker says that Lebanon would never become a US protectorate or part of Israeli settlements, denouncing a US-brokered framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel and warning that the group’s armed resistance would remain essential to defending the country’s sovereignty.
Hassan Ezzeddine, a member of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc, described the framework agreement as an “agreement of humiliation and disgrace”, according to a Saturday report by Al Manar television network. He said the accord ignored Israel’s crimes and failed to require a full Israeli withdrawal from occupied Lebanese territory.
Ezzeddine said the Lebanese government was making concessions by engaging in direct negotiations with Israel, saying the approach amounted to a conspiracy against Lebanon’s people, sovereignty and independence and would ultimately damage the country’s national interests.
He said Israel had conditioned a complete withdrawal from disputed areas on the disarmament of Hezbollah, arguing that this was an objective Israel had failed to achieve through military operations in previous wars.
Ezzeddine said no one had the right to strip the Lebanese people of the resistance’s weapons.
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