Hezbollah criticized US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan and voiced support for the upcoming ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas in Egypt in posts to its Telegram channel on Sunday evening.
Trump’s plan is an “initiative full of traps, even more extreme than the proposals of the criminals Ben-Gvir and Smotrich,” Hezbollah claimed in its statement.
Hezbollah continued, calling Trump the “official patron of the [Zionist] entity” and an “executioner” and slamming his initiative to end the war, as he had “perfected [Palestinian's] torture, killing, and displacement after nearly two years of continuous massacres.”
Despite this, in a subsequent statement posted to the organization's Telegram account, Hezbollah expressed its support and praised Hamas’s decision to participate in the ceasefire negotiations scheduled for Monday.
“This position also reaffirms adherence to the fundamental principles of the Palestinian cause and the refusal to compromise the rights of the Palestinian people,” Hezbollah stated.
Hezbollah had vowed to fight until the war in Gaza ends
Hezbollah itself had been at war with the Jewish state until a ceasefire went into effect at the end of November 2024. The Lebanese terror organization limped out of the conflict badly broken, with much of its leadership and fighting force dead and wounded.
During the conflict, in a speech given in February 2024, former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned that his terror group would not stop attacking Israel until the war in Gaza was ended.
The terror chief was later killed in an Israeli strike in September 2024 after the infamous beeper operation and the killing of Hezbollah official Ibrahim Aqil.
After the ceasefire went into effect, the group refused to disarm.
The Lebanese government announced its intention to push the terror organization to do so, and in a meeting last month, a source familiar with the discussions told The Jerusalem Post that while Lebanon’s military is still in the early stages of the operation, “yes, they are taking steps to dismantle the organization’s weapons."
Amichai Stein and Tzvi Joffre contributed to this report.