Hezbollah will not accept a “partial ceasefire” with Israel, a senior official from the group says, refusing to halt attacks against northern Israel in exchange for Israel sparing Beirut’s southern suburbs.

“We will not accept a partial ceasefire,” Mahmud Qomati tells AFP in a written statement, adding that “the Zionist enemy should know that any aggression against the suburbs could lead to a deeper and stronger response” from the group.