Naim Kassem, leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, said the government should have instead “spread its authority and evicted Israel from Lebanon.”

Lebanon's government has been under mounting US pressure to get Hezbollah to disarm. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

HEZBOLLAH Naim Kassem vowed today that the Lebanese resistance organisation would not disarm, despite orders to do so from Lebanon's government.Removing “the defensive weapons of the resistance, its people and Lebanon during an aggression” would facilitate the killing of “resistance fighters and their families and evict them from their land and homes,