Nabih Berri Condemns US-Brokered Lebanon-Israel Framework Agreement, Says It Will Not Pass

Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri condemned the US-brokered “framework agreement” with Israel, saying it was “contradictory and impossible to implement.”

Berri warned that “This agreement was designed to sow discord between the Lebanese,” and he said it would “not pass, and it will not be implemented in its current form.”

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Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem said the government was legitimizing the regime’s occupation in Lebanon for many years, and he warned the agreement could ultimately lead to “the annexation of Lebanese territory to the Zionist entity.”

The dispute followed the United States’ announcement on Friday that the Lebanese and Israeli governments had reached a “framework agreement,” which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed as a significant achievement.

The BBC reported that on Friday, June 26, 2026, representatives of Lebanon, Israel, and the United States signed in Washington, D.C. a trilateral framework agreement that comprises 14 provisions and outlines a path to end the conflict between Lebanon and Israel.

Hezbollah said it reserves the right to defend Lebanon after accusing Israel of repeatedly violating a ceasefire with fresh military strikes, and it described Israel’s latest attacks as “a blatant violation of the ceasefire” that Hezbollah had respected.

Kurdistan24 reported that the warning came a day after the Israeli military destroyed what it described as a major Hezbollah tunnel in southern Lebanon near the southern Lebanese village of Majdal Zoun.

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Le Monde reported that the Israeli army destroyed an extensive tunnel in southern Lebanon on Sunday, June 28, and that Lebanese state media reported strikes in the area while Iran-backed Hezbollah said it reserves the right to respond.

In response to the attacks, Hezbollah said it “reiterates that what the enemy has done is a blatant violation of the ceasefire,” and it added that it was monitoring and tracking these violations while reserving the right to defend its homeland and its people.

The BBC framed the broader political stakes around whether the framework agreement would “ignite internal divisions,” citing Hezbollah’s rejection and warning that the deal does not exist.

The framework agreement described by the BBC as a phased, conditional process rests on the Lebanese army gradually assuming actual security authority over Lebanese territory after verification that non-state armed groups are disarmed and their infrastructure dismantled.

The BBC also said the agreement calls on Lebanon and Israel to refrain from hostilities or antagonistic actions in international political and legal forums, to cooperate in locating and returning the remains of missing persons, and to release detainees.

In contrast, Hezbollah rejected the agreement, with its secretary-general Naim Qassem stating in a statement on Saturday, June 27, that the framework agreement in Washington is “humiliating, shameful, and a surrender of sovereignty.”

Tehran Times reported that Talal Arslan said the agreement is “unbalanced in both form and substance, legitimizes the occupation, and violates Lebanon’s sovereignty,” and it quoted Hassan Fadlallah insisting that the “agreement of humiliation will never be implemented.”

Shafaq News reported that Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raji said the government’s priorities remain securing a full Israeli withdrawal, deploying the Lebanese army across the south, and completing the state's plan to place all weapons under its exclusive control.