U.S.-brokered ceasefire<\/a> between Israel and Lebanon, warning that the Iran-backed terrorist group would continue attacking as long as Israeli operations persist.<\/p>\n\u201cWe have not given anyone a commitment not to resist aggression and respond to it,\u201d Qassem said in remarks carried by Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar, adding that \u201cas long as the aggression continues, we will confront it with all the strength we possess.\u201d<\/p>\n
Qassem said any ceasefire must include a full halt to Israeli military activity across Lebanon and a withdrawal of Israeli forces, alongside the return of displaced residents and reconstruction efforts. He described Lebanese sovereignty as the \u201cprimary objective,\u201d calling for \u201chalting Israeli aggression in all its forms\u2014air, land and sea,\u201d and deploying the Lebanese army south of the Litani River, according to Al Manar.<\/p>\n
He also denounced U.S.-led diplomacy and any efforts to disarm Hezbollah, calling direct negotiations a \u201cfarce\u201d and the so-called Washington Declaration \u201ca roadmap for the extermination of a segment of the Lebanese people.\u201d <\/p>\n
Qassem warned that \u201cas long as the occupation exists, the resistance will continue,\u201d rejecting any arrangement that would limit Hezbollah\u2019s terrorist activity while Israeli strikes continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Jun. 4, 2026 \/ JNS) Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem on Thursday appeared to reject a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-475983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}