# The Iran-backed militant group, Hezbollah, has rejected the ceasefire agreement reached between the Lebanese government and Israel. The deal called for a complete cessation of Hezbollah fire and the group’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon. Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem says the ceasefire is a roadmap to annihilate a segment of the Lebanese people and enslave the rest. He has called on the Lebanese government to halt direct negotiations with Israel, calling them futile and humiliating. Over three-thousand people have been killed in Lebanon since the start of the war.
Hezbollah has rejected the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire