The organization escalates its rhetoric in southern Lebanon, rejects disarmament and calls for abandoning direct negotiations with Israel.
A New escalation of rhetorical tension in the Middle East is being made by Hezbollah, with statements that raise the thermometer in already fragile southern Lebanon. A member of parliament from the pro-Iranian movement has asserted that the organization is not willing to accept any restrictions that it considers imposed by Israel, calling it a “violation” of the so-called yellow line demarcation. At the same time, it categorically rejects any possibility of disarmament, stressing that armed resistance remains, in its view, a fundamental right to defend Lebanon. These positions come at a time of increased diplomatic pressure and discussions on the next day of the ceasefire, while Beirut is facing internal and external dilemmas regarding the management of the crisis and relations with Tel Aviv.
Hezbollah says it will violate the “yellow line” demarcation that Israel said it established in southern Lebanon and that no one will be able to disarm the pro-Iranian movement, according to one of its members of parliament.
The “yellow line”
“This yellow line, we will violate it by resisting, invoking our legal right to defend our lives and our country,” Hassan Fardala said in an interview with Agence France-Presse, adding: “No one in Lebanon or abroad” will be able to disarm Hezbollah.
Meanwhile, Fardala said in an interview with Agence France-Presse that Lebanese President Joseph Aoun should abandon direct negotiations with Israel, adding that the pro-Iranian movement wants the ceasefire to continue.
“It is in the interest of Lebanon, the president and the government to abandon the path of direct negotiations and return to a national consensus to decide the best option,” he said.
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