Hizbollah’s leader has rejected the latest ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon’s governments, as Israel pressed ahead with military operations against the militant group in southern and eastern Lebanon.
The US-brokered agreement was announced in a joint statement on Wednesday after Israeli forces made their deepest incursion into Lebanon in decades. It did not set a timeline for Israel’s withdrawal.
In a written statement on Thursday, Hizbollah’s leader Naim Qassem said his group demanded a complete Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and vowed that Hizbollah would not stop attacking Israel “as long as our villages are not safe and are being bombed and destroyed and our people are killed”.