Hezbollah rejects US-brokered Israel-Lebanon security deal as 'surrender'

Can the Israel-Lebanon Framework Hold, or Deepen Regional Divisions?

Lebanon and Israel signed a US-brokered trilateral framework that links a phased Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon to Hezbollah’s disarmament, but Hezbollah has rejected the agreement.

Hizbullah’s opposition raises doubts over Israel-Lebanon peace deal

There are serious questions over the ability of the Beirut government to disarm the powerful Shia militia

Why the Lebanon-Israel deal to disarm Hezbollah is historic

Success is far from guaranteed but for the first time in many years, Jerusalem, Beirut and Washington are publicly aligned to reduce the influence of Iran and its most powerful proxy

Paper Agreements Will Not Disarm Terrorists

Unfortunately, like the Gaza initiative before it, the Lebanon agreement risks becoming another document that looks impressive on paper but proves impossible to implement because it rests on a false assumption: that terrorist organizations honor

Lebanon Parliament speaker says framework agreement 'will not pass'

Lebanon Parliament speaker says framework agreement 'will not pass' Lebanese Parliament Speaker and Hezbollah ally Nabih Berri says that the trilateral framework agreement between Lebanon, Israel and the United States will not pass as it doesn’t guarantee Lebanon’s rights. “This agreement will not pass, and it will not be implemented in its current form,” Berri says in a statement shared by his party, the Amal movement, adding that it was “an a…