Naim Berjawi, Mohammad Sio<\/p>\n
01 September 2026\u2022Update: 01 September 2026<\/p>\n
Lebanon will not give up its right to pursue legal action against Israel over its \u201cgenocide crimes\u201d in the country, the nation\u2019s parliament speaker said Monday.<\/p>\n
Nabih Berri made the remarks in a speech marking the 48th anniversary of the disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric and Amal Movement founder Musa al-Sadr, whose fate remains unknown since he disappeared in Libya in 1978, according to the Lebanese National News Agency.<\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s Shiite community holds late Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi responsible for the disappearance of al-Sadr along with his two companions, Sheikh Mohammed Yacoub and journalist Abbas Badr al-Din, during a visit to Libya. The former Libyan regime denied the allegation and said the three had left for Italy.<\/p>\n
Berri said Lebanon\u2019s confrontation with Israel requires \u201ca unified national approach free of sectarian calculations.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat Israel wants is not Hezbollah, its weapons, Amal, or the Shiite community. Lebanon itself, its unity and civil peace, are the target,\u201d he said, warning against allowing the country to be drawn into internal conflicts<\/p>\n
\u201cWe reject the (June) framework agreement, and we have repeatedly warned against direct negotiations with the Israeli enemy while under fire,\u201d Berri said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat have seven rounds of negotiations achieved? The areas under occupation have expanded, destruction has increased, and the number of martyrs has risen,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Berri also rejected any move to waive Lebanon\u2019s right to prosecute Israel over \u201cgenocide crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
His remarks came ahead of an expected eighth round of direct Lebanon-Israel talks in Italy in September. The seventh round ended on Aug. 6 without agreement on expanding areas from which Israeli forces would withdraw.<\/p>\n
Lebanon and Israel signed a US-mediated framework agreement on June 26 calling for a phased Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon alongside the deployment of the Lebanese army. Subsequent talks have focused on mechanisms to implement the agreement and complete the withdrawal.<\/p>\n
Israel has continued its aggression against Lebanon since March 2, killing more than 4,000 people and wounding over 12,000, while more than 1 million have been displaced, according to Lebanese authorities.<\/p>\n
Israel continues to occupy parts of southern Lebanon, some for decades and others since the 2023-24 war, while its latest military offensive has expanded its presence deeper inside Lebanese territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naim Berjawi, Mohammad Sio 01 September 2026\u2022Update: 01 September 2026 Lebanon will not give up its right to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-602179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602179","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=602179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}