Hezbollah's leader has vowed not to disarm, saying the Lebanese government's decision to remove its weapons by the end of the year serves Israel's interests.

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,

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,