A Hezbollah lawmaker has said that the group would be able to “thwart” the objectives of direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel, AFP reports.

Speaking at an event to honour killed Hezbollah fighters, Hassan Fadlallah said “these negotiations with all their results do not concern us, and we will not implement them”.

“We have a free people and a steadfast resistance capable of thwarting all the objectives of these negotiations, which increase the sharp division in the country between the factions of our people and within the state itself,” Fadlallah said.

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