The Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper Al-Diyar reports the group and its ally Amal have drawn up a joint political plan to block the Israel-Lebanon framework deal, and hint that if political efforts fail they may resort to starting a civil war in Lebanon as a last resort.
A Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper, Al-Diyar, reports that Hezbollah and its Shia ally, the Amal movement led by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, have held 'feverish coordination meetings' and formulated a joint political plan to block implementation of the U.S.-brokered framework deal between Israel and Lebanon. The plan reportedly uses constitutional and legal tools to set up obstacles, but the report explicitly warns that shifting the struggle to the Lebanese street—meaning civil war—remains the last bargaining card if political efforts fail.
This comes after several days of escalating rhetoric: on June 29, Berri told i24NEWS that Hezbollah is actively working to undermine the agreement, and on Monday he vowed to block the pact citing a risk of 'civil war.' The Zioneer has previously reported that Hezbollah demanded the deal be scrapped entirely on June 26, and that analysts assessed roughly half of Lebanon's political system rejects the framework. The new report raises the stakes by explicitly mentioning the possibility of internal armed conflict as a deliberate tool, described as a 'last resort.'
The report is from a single outlet closely aligned with Hezbollah, and the exact nature of the 'political efforts' and the threshold for escalating to civil war remain unspecified. No independent corroboration is yet available.
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