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⚡️ President Trump and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun had a ‘very positive call’ which concluded with Trump telling Aoun: “I’ll see you soon,” according to LCBI, while Axios reported that Trump congratulated Aoun on the signing of the Israel-Lebanon framework agreement.
⚡️ Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri warned on Saturday that the signed framework agreement between the Lebanese authorities and Israel risked plunging the country into internal division, declaring: “My people in Lebanon, all of Lebanon… this is sedition.”
🔹 Berri called for caution amid the Lebanese government’s actions, invoking a well-known saying attributed to Imam Ali bin abi Talib: “In times of sedition, be like a young camel: neither fit to be ridden nor able to be milked,” effectively cautioning Lebanese people not to allow themselves to be exploited by the enemies as tools in times of internal strife.
⚡️ Lebanese MP Halima el-Kaakour sharply slammed the framework, warning that its 13th provision risked undermining accountability for war crimes, in a post on X, that addressed President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, asking: “How can you agree to a provision stating that the parties shall ‘commit to… the cessation of all hostilities or adverse actions in international political or legal fora?”
🔹 El-Kaakour argued that it effectively meant ‘abanding any effort to prosecute the enemy’ for its war crimes and crimes against humanity, asserting: “In effect, you are institutionalising impunity, denying justice to the thousands of victims of war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law, and depriving Lebanon to pursue substantial financial compensation for the damage caused for those crimes.”
🔹 She added that ‘in the same text, you speak of peace,’ but asked: “Do you not recognise that there can be no peace without justice, and what you are proposing amounts to ‘peace through coercion and submission,’ a formula that offers no protection against future wars?”
🔹 El-Kaakour added that ‘this is a serious and deeply dangerous mistake.’
🔹 The remarks were published alongside a screenshot from the draft framework referencing commitments to cease ‘international political or legal fora’ as part of steps toward ‘stable and peaceful relations’ between Lebanon and Israel.
⚡️ Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem rejected the framework, declaring the deal completely null and void.
🔹 In an address, Qassem accused the Lebanese authority of surrendering national sovereignty and making unearned concessions to Israeli-American dictates, pointing to the government’s rejection of an earlier US-Iran ceasefire proposal brokered by Pakistan in April 2026, saying that decision directly preceded Israel’s massive Black Wednesday bombing attacks against Beirut.
🔹 Qassem criticised the Lebanese government for its March 2nd decree that labelled the Resistance unlawful, calling it an internal betrayal during active war, while rejecting the proposed trial zones for the Lebanese Army, warning that making troop deployment conditional on an Israeli proof of good behaviour legitimised a long-term occupation.
🔹 The Sheikh emphasised that linking an Israeli withdrawal to nationwide disarmament crossed all red lines, stating that internal security and weapons are strictly domestic matters.
🔹 Concluding the statement, Qassem demanded a return to the parameters of the original Iranian-American MoU and affirmed that the Resistance would remain in the field to secure a complete withdrawal.
⚡️ Head of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc in the Lebanese Parliament MP Mohammad Raad, launched a blistering attack on the framework, rejecting it in its entirety as a declaration that represented nothing more than ‘the screeching owls’ in Lebanon and the region.
🔹 Raad said the text was deliberately inverting the truth and knowingly committing political atrocities, claiming the statement distorted the facts, particularly regarding the legitimate Resistance, and manipulated concepts concerning who actually posed the true and legal threat to the Lebanese sovereignty.
🔹 According to Raad, the essence of the framework agreement lies in a malicious role designed to provide cover for the continuous Israeli occupation in Lebanon.
🔹 Raad said the document exposed the Lebanese authority’s complete submission to American dictates and revealed its complicity with the Israeli entity against its own people, saying that the government’s stance is going far beyond mere disgrace, shame, and baseness, calling it a total betrayal of Lebanon’s sovereignty and the rights of its citizens.
🔹 In conclusion, Raad added that the signatories were merely under the illusion that the agreement will allow Washington to evade its explicit commitment made to Iran to pressure Israel into a full withdrawal.
⚡️ Lebanese MP Hassan Fadlallah, a member of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc, said the agreement was ‘a humiliation and a disgrace’ which ‘will never be implemented,’ stressing that the Resistance’s weapons would remain to liberate occupied land and protect the Lebanese people.
🔹 Speaking at a memorial ceremony in Beirut’s southern suburb, Fadlallah said Hezbollah had taken up arms because the Lebanese state had failed to defend its people, accusing the current authorities of placing foreign interests above national sovereignty and signing what he described as an ‘instrument of surrender.’
🔹 Fadlallah said the agreement granted Israel legitimacy while offering Lebanon nothing in return except Israeli praise, arguing that the government’s actions had only reinforced the need for resistance, saying more people were now seeking weapons training after losing confidence in the state’s ability to protect them.
🔹 The minister also accused Lebanese authorities of attempting to provoke internal strife by shifting the conflict away from Israel and toward an internal confrontation.
🔹 Fadlallah insisted the Resistance would continue to defend Lebanon, rejecting any effort to turn the issue into a sectarian dispute, saying Hezbollah’s supporters came from across Lebanon’s communities and vowed that the movement would preserve the country’s independence, diversity, and sovereignty despite mounting political pressure.
🔹 The minister argued that the agreement was intended to undermine the Iran-US MoU, which made ending the aggression against Lebanon and securing an Israeli withdrawal the first condition of any final accord, reiterating that Iran would not sign any agreement that failed to guarantee Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanese territory, adding that ‘nothing will pass without our approval.’
⚡️ Major General Mohsen Rezaee, a member of Iran’s Discernment Council, said the United States, by ‘supporting the actions of its proxies’ in the region, has violated the first article of the memorandum of understanding, and added that ‘by continuing to create tension in the Strait of Hormuz, has violated the fifth article.
🔹 Rezaee said: “The response to the violation of any clause of the memorandum of understanding will be swift and crushing.
