Hezbollah Rejects Lebanon–Israel US Talks Agreements

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah will not abide by any agreements that may result from the direct Lebanon-Israel talks in the United States , negotiations it firmly opposes, a senior Hezbollah official said Monday.

Wafiq Safa, a high-ranking member of Hezbollah's political council, spoke on the eve of the talks expected in Washington between Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors to the U.S. It will be the first time in decades that envoys from Lebanon and Israel, which do not have diplomatic relations, meet



face-to-face in direct talks.

As for the outcomes of this negotiation between Lebanon and the Israeli enemy, we are not interested in or concerned with them at all," Safa told The Associated Press. "We are not bound by what they agree to,” he added in a rare interview with international media.

He spoke next to a cemetery as an Israeli drone buzzed overhead. Historic negotiations at a sensitive time Lebanese officials are looking to broker a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war in the U.S. talks.