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Hezbollah rejects talks with Israel, calls diplomacy ‘futile’
Greenwatch Desk
World News
2026-04-14, 10:26am
Hezbollah has ruled out any negotiations with Israel, with its chief Naim Qassem describing such efforts as “futile.”
His remarks came as Israel is set to begin official peace talks with Lebanon next week, following a first-ever phone conversation between Israel’s ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter and his Lebanese counterpart Nada Hamadeh Moawad over the weekend.
“No one has a right to take Lebanon towards that approach without internal consensus among its components, which has not happened,” Qassem said.
Addressing Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun, Qassem accused Israel of trying to create divisions among the Lebanese people, reports UNB.
“Let’s confront the aggression together and then we can find an understanding over the future and over everything,” he said.