Chicago Tribune Top News｜真主党领导人拒绝解除武装，除非以色列从黎巴嫩南部撤军

BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem reiterated Sunday the fighter groups refusal to lay down its weapons before Israel withdraws from all of southern Lebanon and stops its airstrikes. He spoke in a video address, as thousands gathered in Beiruts southern suburbs to mark the Shiite holy day of Ashoura.

Ashoura commemorates the 680 A.D. Battle of Karbala, in which the Prophet Muhammads grandson, Imam Hussein, was killed after he refused to pledge allegiance to the Umayyad caliphate. For Shiites, the commemoration has come to symbolize resistance against tyranny and injustice.

This years commemoration comes in the wake of a bruising war between Israel and Hezbollah, which nominally ended with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in late November. Israeli strikes killed much of Hezbollahs top leadership, including longtime Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, and destroyed much of its arsenal.

Since the ceasefire, Israel has continued to occupy five strategic border points in southern Lebanon and to carry out near-daily airstrikes that it says aim to prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding its capabilities. Those strikes have killed some 250 people since November, in addition to more than 4,000 killed during the war, according to Lebanons Health Ministry. There has been increasing international and domestic pressure for Hezbollah to give up its remaining arsenal.

How can you expect us not to stand firm while the Israeli enemy continues its aggression, continues to occupy the five points, and continues to enter our territories and kill? Kassem said in his video address. We will not be part of legitimizing the occupation in Lebanon and the region. We will not accept normalization (with Israel).

In response to those who ask why the group needs its missile arsenal, Kassem said: How can we confront Israel when it attacks us if we didnt have them? Who is preventing Israel from entering villages and landing and killing young people, women and children inside their homes unless there is a resistance with certain capabilities capable of minimal defense?

His comments come ahead of an expected visit by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack to Beirut to discuss a proposed plan for Hezbollahs disarmament and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the rest of southern Lebanon.

Barrack posted Saturday on X that Lebanon is facing a historic moment to supersede the strained confessionalism of the past and finally fulfill (its) true promise of the hope of One country, one people, one army and quoted U.S. President Donald Trump saying, Lets make Lebanon Great again.

Later on Sunday, Lebanons state-run National News Agency reported that the Israeli military launched a series of airstrikes on southern and eastern Lebanon, including in the area around the eastern city of Baalbek and in Apple Province, a mountainous region overlooking large parts of southern Lebanon.

The Israeli military said in a statement that it had struck several Hezbollah military sites, strategic weapons production and storage sites, and a rocket launching site.

贝鲁特——真主党领导人纳伊姆·卡西姆周日重申，在以色列从黎巴嫩南部全部撤军并停止空袭之前，该武装组织拒绝放下武器。他在视频讲话中发表上述声明时，数千人聚集在贝鲁特南郊纪念什叶派圣日阿舒拉节。

阿舒拉节是为了纪念公元680年的卡尔巴拉战役。在这场战役中，先知穆罕默德的孙子伊玛目侯赛因因拒绝向倭马亚王朝宣誓效忠而遇害。对什叶派穆斯林而言，这一纪念活动已成为反抗暴政与不公的象征。

今年的纪念活动正值以色列与黎巴嫩真主党之间激烈的战争结束不久。这场战争于11月下旬在美国斡旋下达成停火协议，名义上宣告终结。以色列的空袭行动导致真主党高层领导人大批丧生，包括长期担任秘书长的哈桑·纳斯鲁拉，并摧毁了该组织大量武器装备。

停火以来，以色列持续占领黎巴嫩南部的五处战略边境据点，并几乎每日实施空袭，称此举旨在阻止真主党重建军事能力。据黎巴嫩卫生部统计，自11月以来，这些空袭已造成约250人死亡，而战争期间死亡人数超过4000人。国际社会和黎巴嫩国内要求真主党放弃剩余武装的压力正与日俱增。

卡西姆在视频讲话中表示：'在以色列敌人持续侵略、继续占领五个据点、不断入侵我们的领土并杀害民众的情况下，你们怎能指望我们不坚守立场？我们不会成为黎巴嫩及该地区占领合法化的一部分，也绝不接受（与以色列）关系正常化。'

针对质疑该组织为何需要导弹库的声音，卡西姆回应道："若没有这些武器，我们如何在遭受以色列攻击时进行对抗？若非存在一支具备最低限度防御能力的抵抗力量，谁能阻止以色列闯入村庄、实施空袭，甚至杀害家中的青年、妇女和儿童？"

美国特使汤姆·巴拉克（Tom Barrack）预计将访问贝鲁特，商讨真主党解除武装及以色列军队从黎巴嫩南部其余地区撤军的提议计划，而他的这番言论恰在访问前夕发表。

巴拉克周六在社交平台X上发文称，黎巴嫩正面临“一个历史性时刻，要超越过去紧张的教派主义，最终实现‘一个国家、一个民族、一支军队’的真正希望承诺”，并引用美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的话说：“让黎巴嫩再次伟大。”

周日稍晚时候，黎巴嫩官方通讯社国家新闻社报道称，以色列军方对黎巴嫩南部和东部发动了一系列空袭，包括东部城市巴勒贝克周边地区以及阿普尔省——该山区地带可俯瞰黎巴嫩南部大片区域。

以色列军方在一份声明中表示，其已对“多个真主党军事据点、战略武器生产及储存场所和一个火箭发射场”实施了打击。