Hezbollah supporters protest in Beirut against Israel deal
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The agreement does not specify when or under what conditions Israel would withdraw from the large areas it occupies in Lebanon
Hezbollah supporters take to the streets in the southern suburbs of Beirut to protest against the trilateral agreement that was signed between the US, Israel and Lebanon on 27 June 2026 (Ibrahim Amro/AFP)
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Hundreds of Hezbollah supporters took to the streets of Beirut from late Friday into Saturday to protest against a framework agreement reached between Lebanon, Israel and the United States.
The protesters rode motorcycles through the Lebanese capital, including central Beirut, near parliament and along the airport road, hours after the agreement was announced.
Footage shared by local media and on social media showed hundreds of Hezbollah supporters riding motorbikes and mopeds through Beirut's southern suburbs of Dahieh, which suffered widespread destruction in Israeli air strikes.
Some protesters gathered near the seat of government and blocked a nearby main road, while other footage showed soldiers dispersing demonstrators who had blocked the airport road with burning tyres before the army reopened it, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) said.
The Lebanese army also set up temporary checkpoints across several parts of Beirut.
Earlier on Friday, Israel and Lebanon signed the agreement in Washington following several days of talks aimed at ending the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
The agreement, reached after five rounds of direct talks, includes a pilot effort under which Lebanese soldiers would take control of two areas occupied by Israel, as well as a process aimed at disarming Hezbollah.
It does not, however, specify when or under what conditions Israel would withdraw from the large areas it occupies in Lebanon. Instead, it ties any withdrawal to security developments and the removal of any threat to Israel, effectively making it contingent on Hezbollah's disarmament.
Hezbollah has long maintained that it will not disarm while Israel continues to pose a threat and occupy Lebanese territory.
Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said the Lebanese authorities "will be unable to impose the implementation of the agreement signed in Washington unless they go, with American support, to civil war".
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"What happened in Washington is an attempt to disrupt the Islamabad path, and without the resistance [Hezbollah] nothing will pass," he added, referring to the initial agreement between the US and Iran to halt the wider regional war, which includes Lebanon.
On Saturday afternoon, an Israeli army drone struck the Nabatieh area in southern Lebanon, the NNA reported.
An Israeli drone also dropped a sound bomb near a Lebanese army checkpoint in Nabatieh al-Fawqa.
Fadlallah said Hezbollah would resist any attempt by the Lebanese authorities to implement the agreement, adding that the group would hold even more firmly to its weapons.
He described Hezbollah's opposition as "serious" and said it would prevent the authorities from fulfilling their commitments under the agreement.
However, he stressed that Hezbollah was not seeking a confrontation with the Lebanese army, saying: "The army will remain, the resistance will remain and the people will remain."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, said the framework agreement allows Israeli forces to continue to occupy southern Lebanon if Hezbollah does not disarm.
Netanyahu framed the signing of the deal as a "major blow" to Iran.
"Iran is trying to force us into a withdrawal from southern Lebanon by force. In effect, Israel, Lebanon, and the United States are telling them: this is none of your business."
An anchor on Israel's Channel 13, meanwhile, said sowing internal divisions in Lebanon had long been one of Israel's strategic objectives.
"It seems we're leading Lebanon to a civil war. Maybe it's not so bad for us, let the Lebanese government fight Hezbollah... That's been the goal from the start," the anchor said.
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