A Hezbollah deputy challenges the state: He is the most important person who wants to restrict weapons

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Hezbollah directed harsh criticism at the Lebanese authority, considering that its decision is not in its hands but is linked to the outside world. One of his deputies warned that “the equation in Lebanon will change, and this authority will not remain as it is,” according to his claim.

He also reiterated his position of rejecting the disarmament of the party, and restricting the decision of war and peace to the hands of the state.

Hezbollah’s representative in the Lebanese Parliament, Hassan Fadlallah, said in a speech he delivered during his participation in an event held by the party in the town of Tibnine, southern Lebanon, that “the state in Lebanon does not own its decisions, but rather it is run from the outside. Some run it via WhatsApp, others via phone,” and that some of the decisions it takes, especially in terms of pressure on the party, come from abroad.

He also described, “Those who wanted some internal tools to eliminate the resistance and its capabilities, under the title of exclusivity of weapons and the exclusivity of the decision of war and peace in the hands of the state, are deluded,” as he put it.

In addition, Fadlallah saw that some of the “authority’s decisions are unjust and invalid measures because they came under direct American dictates.” He considered that these “American-Israeli demands ultimately aim to destroy the country,” referring to the Lebanese government’s decision to restrict weapons to the state.

He also stressed that the party does not recognize “the decisions that were taken against it on March 2,” referring to the Lebanese government’s decision to ban Hezbollah’s military activity.

As for the truck that was stopped by the security forces in the Dahr al-Baydar area in the Bekaa last week, which was carrying a weapon, he denounced: “It is natural for the resistance to transport a weapon and for it to reach the front. As for how it is transported and by what means, this has its own procedures. Otherwise, how does the resistance prepare itself and equip its capabilities? How will it fight this enemy? Will it fight it with bags of potatoes?”

He concluded by noting that "the equation in Lebanon will change, and this authority will not remain as it is." He said: "We are patient and tolerant, but things will change, and our advice to them is to calm down a little, and for none of them to link their fate to the fate of this authority."

These statements came in conjunction with the Lebanese government confirming on an almost daily basis its adherence to the decision to limit weapons to the state.

It also came as a recent opinion poll showed that more than 66% of Shiites in Lebanon support handing over the party’s weapons to the state. The poll also showed that the majority supported the state's exclusive adherence to the decision on war and peace.

Since he entered the country into two successive wars, the first “in support of Gaza,” as he described it, in 2023, and the second last March in retaliation for the assassination of Iranian guide Ali Khamenei, the wave of criticism has grown in Lebanon against Hezbollah. He also lost a significant percentage of the support of the Shiite street, which was considered his "nurturing environment", as a result of the destruction that occurred in dozens of southern villages.