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

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Friday accused Lebanon’s government of “handing” the country to Israel by pushing for the group’s disarmament, warning it would fight to keep its weapons. Qassem spoke in a televised address after meeting Iran’s top security chief Ali Larijani,

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,