Hezbollah
Iran-backed Lebanese militia and political party; dismissed the June 2026 Lebanon framework as null.
Hours after the US-Israel-Lebanon disarmament framework was signed on 27 June, Hezbollah's Secretary-General dismissed it as void, and Hezbollah has not committed to any Israel-Lebanon ceasefire since.
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Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist movement founded in 1982 with IRGC sponsorship following Israel's invasion of Lebanon. It combines a parliamentary bloc, an extensive social-services network and an independent military estimated at 40,000 to 100,000 fighters, governing as a state within a state across southern Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs.
The US, UK and EU designate it a terrorist organisation, while it simultaneously operates as a legal political party inside Lebanon's confessional system, a duality that has shaped Lebanese politics since the 1989 Taif Agreement Left its arms outside state control. Secretary-General Naim Qassem leads the movement, the third Hezbollah chief in two years since Hassan Nasrallah's killing in 2024.
That dual identity, armed movement and governing party, is why Lebanon's own state cannot simply outlaw it: any move against Hezbollah's arms is also a move against a party that sits inside government and commands loyalty across a large Shia constituency, which is why disarmament demands have repeatedly stalled Lebanon's Ceasefire diplomacy.
It became a co-belligerent overnight
When Iran's war with the US and Israel began on 28 February 2026, Hezbollah launched a record 63 operations against Israeli positions in 24 hours and sustained more than 565 attack waves between 2 and 18 March .
Lebanon's cabinet formally banned Hezbollah's military activity and expelled Iran's ambassador for the first time in post-civil-war history; Hezbollah defied both directives, with Secretary-General Naim Qassem demanding Beirut cancel its own ambassador-level talks with Israel while ordering fresh drone salvos the same day .
It rejected the disarmament framework
On 1 June Hezbollah pledged to stop attacking Israel under a partial Ceasefire brokered after a Trump-Netanyahu call, but the pledge carried no Israeli withdrawal condition and IDF ground forces kept advancing . On 19 June it killed four IDF soldiers near the Litani, its deadliest strike since the Islamabad MOU was signed.
When the US, Israel and Lebanon signed a trilateral framework on 27 June tying Israeli withdrawal to Hezbollah's disarmament, Secretary-General Naim Qassem branded it humiliating within hours, called it null, and said Lebanon would not surrender its sovereignty, insisting Israeli forces withdraw before Hezbollah would even discuss the terms . It has not acknowledged the Ceasefire framework since.
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