Hezbollah will fight any future US-Israeli 'collaborator army', Fadlallah says

Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah warned Tuesday that his group would fight any army unit formed by the U.S. and Israel to counter the resistance.

"If Israel and the U.S. manage to form a collaborator army to fight the Resistance, we will fight it just like we fight Israel," Fadlallah said in a press conference, as he warned against free "gifts" to the U.S.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had announced that Washington is developing a plan to pursue Hezbollah’s disarmament by building up trusted units within the Lebanese Armed Forces.

"We’re working towards establishing… a system that actually works where vetted units within the Lebanese Armed Forces have the training, the equipment, and the capability to go after elements of Hezbollah and dismantle them so Israel doesn’t have to do it," Rubio said in an April 27 interview with Fox News.

Delegations from the Lebanese and Israeli militaries will meet in Washington on May 29.

Negotiations will later be held between Lebanon and Israel on June 2 and 3, after three rounds of direct talks.

Fadlalalh said Hezbollah has tasked him with communicating with President Joseph Aoun, as he criticized Aoun's choice to engage in direct talks with Israel. "The president's choice has proven to be ineffective, and we call for it to be reconsidered."

The Hezbollah lawmaker said any agreements or security arrangements that the authorities agree upon with Israel at the expense of the nation's sovereignty "will have no effect on the ground," adding that betting on the U.S. administration has proven to be a "failure".

Fadlallah said the Resistance does not need "national consensus" as long as the occupation exists, re-iterating that Iran has suspended negotiations with the U.S. for the sake of Lebanon.