Hezbollah lawmaker says group can ‘thwart’ goals of Lebanon-Israel talks

A Hezbollah lawmaker said Sunday that the group would be able to “thwart” the objectives of direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel.Speaking at an event to honor killed Hezbollah fighters, Hassan Fadlallah said “these negotiations with all their results do not concern us, and we will not implement them.”Hezbollah drew Lebanon into the Middle East war on March 2, when it fired rockets at Israel in support of Iran.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Israeli attacks on Lebanon have since killed more than 2,600 people and displaced more than a million.“We have a free people and a steadfast resistance capable of thwarting all the objectives of these negotiations, which increase the sharp division in the country between the factions of our people and within the state itself,” Fadlallah said.Lebanon and Israel’s US ambassadors have held two meetings in Washington in recent weeks, the first of their kind in decades.The first meeting led to

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